Im Frühlingsschatten fand ich Sie

  Im [Frühlingsschatten]1 fand ich Sie;
Da band ich Sie mit Rosenbändern:
Sie fühlt' es nicht und schlummerte.

  Ich sah Sie an; mein Leben hing
Mit diesem Blick' an ihrem Leben:
Ich fühlt' es wohl, und wußt' es nicht.

  Doch lispelt' ich Ihr [sprachlos]2 zu,
Und rauschte mit den Rosenbändern:
Da wachte Sie vom Schlummer auf.

  Sie sah mich an; Ihr Leben hing
Mit diesem Blick' an meinem Leben,
Und um uns [ward's]3 Elysium.

Translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA SPA

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Confirmed with Klopstocks Oden. Erster Band. Leipzig bey Georg Joachim Göschen. 1798, page 123.

First published in Lieder mit Melodien, für das Clavier, von Christian Ernst Rosenbaum. Zweeter Theil. Altona und Lübeck, Bey David Iversen, Königl. privil. Buchhändler aufs Herzogth. Holstein; 1762, page 6, with the title Das schlafende Mägdchen; then in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1770. Göttingen bey Johann Christian Dieterich, page 68, with the title Das schlafende Mädchen; and in Poetische Blumenlese auf das Jahr 1774. Göttingen und Gotha, bey Johann Christian Dieterich, page 117, with the title Cidli.

Authorship

• by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Das Rosenband", written 1753, first published 1762 [ author's text verified 2 times]

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

• by Patrik Gyllenhammar (1871 - 1904), "Das Rosenband", duet [ sung text not verified ]
• by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792), "Das Rosenband" [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908), "Das Rosenband", op. 12 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 (1880-1), published 1885 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Kahnt [ sung text not verified ]
• by Henri Wilhelm Petri (1856 - 1914), "Das Rosenband", op. 6 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1884 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Sulzer [ sung text not verified ]
• by Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751 - 1802), "Cidli", published 1794 [voice and piano], from Gesaenge mit Begleitung des Fortepiano von Corona Schroeter, zweyte Sammlung, no. 3, Weimar: In Commission bey dem Industrie Comptoir [ sung text not verified ]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Rosenband", D. 280 (1815), published 1837. [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Josef Antonín Štěpán (1726 - 1797), "Die Cidly", published 1778-9. [ sung text not verified ]
• by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Das Rosenband", op. 36 (Vier Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme -- für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1898 [voice and piano], München, Aibl Verlag [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Das Rosenband", op. 22 (Six Love-songs ("Liebeslieder")) no. 2 (1908). [soprano or tenor and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
• by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758 - 1832), "Das Rosenband" [ sung text not verified ]
• by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Das Rosenband", from Drei Lieder um 1890, no. 1. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , title 1: "La cinta rosa", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "De rozenband", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Le ruban rose", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , title 1: "Il laccio di rose", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , title 1: "La guirnalda de rosas", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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In spring shade I found her

In spring shade I found her,
and bound her with rosy ribbons:
she did not feel it, and slumbered on.

I looked at her; my life hung
with that gaze on her life:
I felt it well, but knew it not.

But I whispered wordlesly to her
and rustled the rosy ribbons.
Then she awoke from her slumber.

She looked at me; her life hung
with this gaze on my life:
and around us it became Elysium.

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Authorship

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Das Rosenband", written 1753, first published 1762 CAT DUT FRE ITA SPA
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Patrik Gyllenhammar, Joseph Martin Kraus, Edward Alexander MacDowell, Henri Wilhelm Petri, Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter, Franz Peter Schubert, Josef Antonín Štěpán, Richard Georg Strauss, Karl Weigl, Karl Friedrich Zelter, Alexander Zemlinsky. Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.