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Es rauscht das rote Laub zu meinen Füßen, Doch [wenn es wieder grünt, wo weil' ich dann]1? Wo werden mich die ersten Schwalben grüßen? Ach ferne, [fern]2 der Süßen, Und nimmer [bin ich mehr ein froher Mann]3. Sonst sang ich [stets]4 durch Flur und Bergeshalde Im braunen Herbst, in flock'ger [Winterszeit]5: O [schöner Frühling]6, komm zu deinem Walde, [Komme]7 balde, balde, balde! Nun sing' ich: Schöner Frühling, bleibe weit! Umsonst! Wie jetzt sich Heid' und Forst entkleiden, So blühn sie neu; was kümmert sie mein [Gram]8? Das Veilchen kommt, ich muß es eben leiden, Muß wandern und muß scheiden, Doch [o]9! [wie leb' ich, wenn ich Abschied nahm!]10
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Emanuel Geibel, Gesammelte Werke in acht Bänden, Erster Band. Jugendgedichte-Zeitstimmen-Sonette, Dritte Auflage, Stuttgart: Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schn Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1893, page 55.
1 Oechsner: "sprich, wo weil' ich, wenn es wieder blüht"2 Hensel: "ferne"
3 Oechsner: "steht in Freuden mein Gemüt"
4 Oechsner: "wohl"
5 Oechsner: "Winterzeit"
6 Oechsner: "Frühling, schöner"
7 Hensel, Oechsner: "Komm'"
8 Hensel: "Lied"
9 Hensel, Oechsner: "ach"
10 Hensel: "wie soll ich leben, wenn ich schied?"
Text Authorship:
- by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), no title, appears in Jugendgedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Lieder als Intermezzo, no. 40 [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 Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (1861 - 1911), "Es rauscht das rothe Laub", op. 11 (Vier Lieder für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Abschied", op. 18 (3 Lieder) no. 3, published 1846 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Carl) August Fischer (1828 - 1892), "Im Herbst", op. 8 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Annecke [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Im Herbst", op. 20 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 6, published 1854 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Es rauscht das rote Laub", 1846, published 1994 [ voice and piano ], Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "Es rauscht das rothe Laub", op. 1 no. 19, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Wonne und Weh in Wort und Weise. Liederreihe aus Dichtungen verschiedener Dichter, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 19, Leipzig, Eulenburg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andreas Johann Lorenz Oechsner (1815 - 1886), "Herbstgefühl", op. 10 (Zwei Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by C. E. Saupe , "Es rauscht das rothe Laub zu meinen Füssen", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für Sopran mit Pianofortebegleitung ) no. 1, published 1879 [ soprano and piano ], Hamburg, Haring [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Es rauscht das rothe Laub zu meinen Füssen", op. 19 (5 Lieder für Mezzosopran) no. 1, published 1866 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2007-07-10
Line count: 15
Word count: 120
At my feet the red leaves are rustling, But when [the leaves] turn green again, where shall I be? Where shall the first swallows greet me? Ah far away, far from the sweet one, And I shall nevermore be a happy man. Once I always sang through meadow and mountain slope In the brown autumn, in the snowy wintertime: Oh lovely spring, come to your forest, Come soon, soon, soon! Now I sing: Lovely spring, stay far away! In vain! Just as now heath and forest are stripped, So shall they bloom anew; what care they for my [sorrow]1? The violet comes, I must simply suffer it, Must wander and must part, But [oh! how shall I live after I have taken farewell!]2
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Es rauscht das rothe Laub" = "The red leaves are rustling"
"Im Herbst" = "In autumn"
"Es rauscht das rothe Laub zu meinen Füssen" = "At my feet the red leaves are rustling"
"Es rauscht das rote Laub" = "The red leaves are rustling"
2 Hensel: "ah! how am I to live after I have departed?"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), no title, appears in Jugendgedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Lieder als Intermezzo, no. 40
This text was added to the website: 2018-09-26
Line count: 15
Word count: 125