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Die Nachtigall, als ich sie fragte Warum sie nicht mehr singe, sagte: Ich singe nur, wenn süß bewegt Mein Herz voll Drang nach Liebe schlägt: Seit ich, was ich gesucht, gefunden, Ist Sehnsucht und Gesang [verschwunden]1: Doch wenn aufs neu Jasmin und Flieder Im Garten blüh'n, dann sing' ich wieder.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Aus dem Nachlasse des Mirza-Schaffy. Neues Liederbuch von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Sechzehnte Auflage, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1891, page 79.
1 Goldmark: "geschwunden"Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Aus dem nachlasse Mirza Schaffy's: Neues Liederbuch, in 4. Cypressen und Rosen, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili) by Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh (1794 - 1852), as Mirza-Schaffy [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carl Goldmark (1830 - 1915), "Die Nachtigall, als ich sie fragte", op. 34 (Vier Lieder für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte. -- für 1 hohe Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Die Nachtigall, als ich sie fragte", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], London : Joseph Williams
Score: Ball State University Digital Media Repository [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Liza Lehmann.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The nightingale, when I asked it", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-01-27
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Word count: 51
The nightingale, when I asked it Why it no longer sang, said: I only sing when, sweetly moved, My heart beats with the urge to love: Since I have found that for which I was searching, Yearning and song have vanished: But when the jasmine and the lilac bloom anew In the garden, then I shall sing again.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Aus dem nachlasse Mirza Schaffy's: Neues Liederbuch, in 4. Cypressen und Rosen, no. 5
Based on:
- a text in Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili) by Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh (1794 - 1852), as Mirza-Schaffy [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2014-01-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 58