by Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888)
Translation by Margarete Münsterberg
Meine Mutter hat's gewollt
Language: German (Deutsch)
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'!
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View original text (without footnotes)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
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