Jouw blauwe ogen | Jouw blauwe ogen zijn zo stil

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by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Dein blaues Auge hält so still

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Dein blaues Auge hält so still,
Ich blicke bis zum Grund.
Du fragst mich, was ich sehen will? 
Ich sehe mich gesund. 

Es brannte mich ein glühend Paar,
Noch schmerzt das Nachgefühl;
Das deine ist wie See so klar
Und wie ein See so kühl.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Brahms • K. Erickson

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Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke. Vierter Band. Plattdeutsche Erzählungen - Hochdeutsche Gedichte, Kiel und Leipzig, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 176.

Text Authorship:

by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 11, first published 1854 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Dein blaues Auge", op. 59 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 8 (1873), published 1880 [ low voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
by Kurt Erickson , "Dein blaues Auge hält so still", first performed 2014 [ soprano and piano ], from Ich und Du , no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Louis Samson , "Dein blaues Auge hält so still", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. II. Reihe, Heft IV, no. 3, Dresden, Arnold [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Johan Harald Molander (1858 - 1900) ; composed by Emil Sjögren.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 45

Jouw blauwe ogen

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Jouw blauwe ogen zijn zo stil,
Ik kijk in diepe grond.
Jij vraagt me, wat ik zien dan wil?
Ik kijk mijzelf gezond.
 
Eens brandde mij een gloeiend paar,
Nog schrijnt mij 't nagevoel;
De jouwe zijn zo waterklaar
En als een meer zo koel.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 11, first published 1854
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This text was added to the website: 2013-12-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 45