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Paa Stranden skælver ej det mindste Blad; Her ruller Søen sølvblank ud sit Bad, Og Solnedgangen lejrer sig derover. I Himlen smeltes ind de bløde Vover, Du skuer mod uendelige Sletter Af Barndomsminder uden mørke Pletter, Vemodig glad: - De lyse- Nætter, ak de lyse Nætter!
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Confirmed with Drachmann, Holger, Samlede Petiske Skrifter - Folkeudgave - Fjerde bind, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, Kjøbenhavn og Kristiania, 1907.
Text Authorship:
- by Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846 - 1908), "Lyse Nætter", appears in Ungdom i Digt og Sang, in Nye Sange ved Havet [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Lyse Nætter", op. 17 no. 5, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], from Sange ved Havet, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Lyse Nætter", published 1891 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Lyse Nætter", published 1897, from Seven Danish Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), no title, op. 8 (6 Sänge til Tekster af H. Drachmann) no. 2, published 1889 [ medium voice and piano ], Christiania (Oslo): Carl Warmuth [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Friedrich Christian Delius (b. 1943) , "Summer nights" ; composed by Frederick Delius.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Nuits claires", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Weiße Nächte", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-04-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 45
Am Strande regt sich nicht das kleinste Blatt; das Meer wogt silberhell ans Gestad’. Die letzten Strahlen haben nun die Wogen mit Himmels rotem Schmelze überzogen. Du schaust auf unendliche Weiten aus Kindheitstagen ohne dunkle Seiten wehmütig froh: - ihr weißen - Nächte, ach ihr hellen Zeiten!
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from Danish (Dansk) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2014 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Danish (Dansk) by Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846 - 1908), "Lyse Nætter", appears in Ungdom i Digt og Sang, in Nye Sange ved Havet
This text was added to the website: 2014-12-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 45