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by Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888)
Translation by Margarete Münsterberg

Meine Mutter hat's gewollt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT FRE
Meine Mutter hat's gewollt,
Den andern ich nehmen sollt';
Was ich zuvor besessen,
Mein Herz sollt' es vergessen;
Das hat es nicht gewollt.

Meine Mutter klag' ich an,
Sie hat nicht wohlgetan;
Was sonst in Ehren stünde,
Nun [ist es worden]1 Sünde.
Was fang ich an?

Für all' mein Stolz und Freud'
Gewonnen hab' ich Leid.
Ach, wär' das nicht [geschehen]2,
Ach, könnt' ich betteln [gehen]3
Über die braune Haid'!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   R. Poebing 

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Confirmed with Theodor Storm, Gedichte, Berlin : Verlag von Gebrüder Partel, 1889

1 Poebing: "ist's geworden"
2 Poebing: "gescheh'n"
3 Poebing: "geh'n"

Text Authorship:

  • by Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888), "Elisabeth", appears in Immensee, in Meine Mutter hat's gewollt, Elisabeth's song [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 Johann Baptiste André (1823 - 1882), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1875 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Behr (1837 - 1898), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 373 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Reichenberg, Schöpfer  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rudolph Bergh (1859 - 1924), "Elisabeth", op. 18 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Verlag Dreililien [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wenzel Theodor Bradsky (1833 - 1881), "Elisabeth", subtitle: "Volkslied", op. 18 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, published 1864 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Karl Friedrich) Gustav Brah-Müller (1839 - 1878), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 24 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from Welke Rosen: Vier Lieder, no. 4, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Friedrich) August Bungert (1845 - 1915), "Verdorben", op. 34 no. 3, published 1884 [ vocal duet for alto and medium voice with piano ], from Gestalten und Erinnerungen, no. 3, Berlin, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Victor Cormann (1871 - 1963), "Elisabeth", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Rost [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 17 no. 3, published 1866 [ voice and piano ], from 3 Gesänge aus Immensee von Storm, no. 3, Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernst Paul Flügel (1844 - 1912), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung) no. 5, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], in Blätter für Hausmusik hrsg. von E.W. Fritzsch, Jahrg. I. 1876. Klasse A. Gesangsmusik. Leipzig, Fritzsch., Heft 9 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Ach, wär' es nie geschehen!", op. 23 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3, published 1855 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Carl Georg Peter Grädener (1812 - 1883), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 23 (Sechs deutsche Lieder für Alt oder Baritone mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1872 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ludwig Grünberger (1839 - 1896), "Verdorben", op. 51 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 5, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachf. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Gund (1865 - 1927), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 10 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 7, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Kurt Hessenberg (1908 - 1994), "Elisabeth", 1940 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Martin Jacobi (1864 - 1919), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 2 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1888 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Heinrich Kaminski (1886 - 1946), "Elisabeth", from 4 Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl von Kaskel (1866 - 1943), "Elisabeth", op. 6 (Fünf Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1901 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Herrn. Seemann Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilhelm Kienzl (1857 - 1941), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 39 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max Kretschmar , "Ach wär' es nie geschehen", op. 4 (Zwei Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Baden-Baden, Sommermeyer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by W. J. Otto Lessmann (1844 - 1918), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Adolf Lorenz, Dr. (1837 - 1923), "Elisabeth", op. 9 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Stettin, Bulang  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1877 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863 - 1943), "Elisabeth", op. 11 (Zwei Gesänge für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joseph Pache , "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", published 1889 [ low voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2, Berlin, Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Richard Poebing , "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 17 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Josef Schelb (1894 - 1977), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", 1946, from 5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Theodor Storm, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Elisabeth", op. 17 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4 (1885-91), published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alfred Tofft (1865 - 1931), "Elisabeth", op. 6 no. 2, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Erotische Blätter. Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustav Trautmann (1866 - 1926), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 1 (8 Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1892 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 9 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 11 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max Weydert , "Elisabeth", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Schöneberg-Berlin, Weydert [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Helene Zitelmann , "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt", op. 1 (Sieben Lieder für 1 tiefere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1899 [ low voice and piano ], Berlin, Simon [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Margarete Münsterberg) , "Elisabeth's Song (From "Immensee")", appears in A Harvest of German Verse, first published 1916
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 74

Elisabeth's Song (From "Immensee")
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
All was for my mother's sake:
The other man she made me take!
What it had owned before
My heart should know no more,
But could not thus forsake.
 
Mother, I'm accusing you:
Good to me you did not do;
The world would have esteemed
What now a sin is deemed.
What shall I do!
 
Now fled is joy and pride,
But sorrow must abide.
Oh, would this were not so,
Could I a-begging go,
Over the brown heath wide!

Text Authorship:

  • by Margarete Münsterberg , "Elisabeth's Song (From "Immensee")", appears in A Harvest of German Verse, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888), "Elisabeth", appears in Immensee, in Meine Mutter hat's gewollt, Elisabeth's song
    • Go to the text page.

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

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-08-04
Line count: 15
Word count: 80

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