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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Der Musensohn
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA JPN NOR
Durch Feld und Wald zu schweifen,
Mein Liedchen wegzupfeifen,
So gehts von Ort zu Ort!
Und nach dem Takte reget,
Und nach dem Maaß beweget
Sich alles an mir fort.

Ich kann sie kaum erwarten,
Die erste Blum' im Garten,
Die erste Blüt' am Baum.
Sie grüßen meine Lieder,
Und kommt der Winter wieder,
Sing' ich noch jenen Traum.

Ich sing' ihn in der Weite,
Auf Eises Läng' und Breite,
Da blüht der Winter schön!
Auch diese Blüte schwindet,
Und neue Freude findet
Sich auf bebauten Höhn.

Denn wie ich bei der Linde
Das junge Völkchen finde,
Sogleich erreg' ich sie.
Der stumpfe Bursche bläht sich,
Das steife Mädchen dreht sich
Nach meiner Melodie.

Ihr gebt den Sohlen Flügel
Und treibt, durch Thal und Hügel,
Den Liebling weit von Haus.
Ihr lieben holden Musen,
Wann ruh' ich ihr am Busen
Auch endlich wieder aus?

Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, pages 25-26; and with Göthe's neue Schriften. Siebenter Band. Berlin. Bei Johann Friedrich Unger. 1800, pages 6-7.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Der Musensohn", written 1774, first published 1800 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by (Carl) Ludwig (Heinrich) Berger (1777 - 1839), "Der Musensohn" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Bernhard (Joseph) Klein (1793 - 1832), "Der Musensohn", op. 15 (Neun Lieder von Goethe) no. 7, published 1827/32 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hermann Theobald Petschke (1806 - 1888), "Der Musensohn", op. 5 (Sechs Gesänge für Sopran oder Tenor mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1836 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Der Musensohn", 1809 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Der Musensohn", op. 92 (Drei Lieder) no. 1, D 764 (1822), published 1828 [ voice, piano ], M. J. Leidesdorf, VN 1014, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758 - 1832), "Der Musensohn", 1807 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El fill de les muses", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "繆斯之子", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De Muzenzoon", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) (Rebecca Plack) , "The son of the muses", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Son of muses", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le fils des muses", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Il figlio delle muse", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "ミューズの子", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Musenes sønn", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 144

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