La fiancée du soldat | Ah, si seulement le roi savait aussi

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by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Ach, wenn's nur der König auch wüßt'

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CAT DUT ENG FIN FRE POR

Ach, wenn's nur der König auch wüßt',
Wie wacker mein Schätzelein ist!
Für den König, da ließ' er sein Blut,
Für mich aber [ebensogut]¹.

Mein Schatz hat kein Band und kein' Stern,
Kein Kreuz wie die vornehmen Herrn,
Mein Schatz wird auch kein General;
Hätt' er nur seinen Abschied einmal!

Es scheinen drei Sterne so hell
Dort über Marien-Kapell;
Da knüpft uns ein rosenrot' Band,
Und ein Hauskreuz ist auch bei der Hand.

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• A. Berg • R. Schumann • R. Schumann

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¹ Berg: "auch eben so gut"; Schumann: "eben so gut"

Text Authorship:

by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Die Soldatenbraut" [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Die Soldatenbraut", 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 58 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 2 no. 6 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 9 (Acht Gesänge) no. 2, published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Friedrich Kauffmann (1803 - 1856), "Die Soldatenbraut " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Die Soldatenbraut", 1939 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 64 (Romanzen und Balladen für Singstimme und Klavier (Heft 4)) no. 1 (1847), published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Soldatenbraut", op. 69 (Romanzen für Frauenstimmen (Heft 1)) no. 4 (1849), published 1849 [ SSAA chorus ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Die Soldatenbraut" [sung text not yet checked]
by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Die Soldatenbraut", VWV 1078 (1865), published 1880 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, from Fünf Gedichte von Goethe, Pushkin, Mörike, Geibel und Pohl, no. 4, Berlin, Bote & Bock, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation possibly by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883); composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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La fiancée du soldat

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Ah, si seulement le roi savait aussi
Comme mon petit trésor est courageux !
Pour le roi, il a renoncé à sa vie,
Mais pour moi aussi volontiers.

Mon trésor n'a pas de rubans ni d'étoiles,
Ni de croix comme les messieurs distingués,
Mon trésor ne sera jamais général ;
Si seulement il avait fait ses adieux un jour !

Trois étoiles brillent si fort
Au-dessus de la chapelle de la Vierge ;
Là nous attacherons un ruban rose
Et il aura aussi une croix chez lui près de sa main.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Die Soldatenbraut"
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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-27
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