Und was seh ich denn da oben im Himmel in einem großem blauen Saal? O viele viele weiße Englein. Ja und was machen die denn da? Die einen putzen den Mond blank, die andern putzen die Sternlein, daß sie heut nacht schön blinkblank in mei'm Kindle sein' Traum schein'.
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Confirmed with Emil Alfred Herrmann, Gedichte, Heidelberg: Otto Petters, 1902, page 17.
Text Authorship:
- by Emil Alfred Herrmann (1871 - 1957), "Wiegenlied" [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 Max Löwengard , "Und was seh ich denn da oben" [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Vobach & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Rankl (1898 - 1968), "Wiegenlied ", 1963 [ high voice and piano ], from 3 Wiegenlieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Schmid-Kayser (1874 - 1964), "Und was seh ich denn da oben" [ voice and lute ], from Neue Weisen zur Laute, 4. Heft, no. 7, Berlin, Lichterfeld: Ch. Friedrich Vieweg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Schmid-Kayser (1874 - 1964), "Und was seh ich denn da oben" [ voice and lute ], from Neue Weisen zur Laute, 4. Heft, no. 7, Berlin, Lichterfeld: Ch. Friedrich Vieweg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Timm (1811 - 1892), "Wiegenlied", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Zechlin [sung text not yet checked]
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