by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933)
Det er Nat paa vide Vande
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Our translations: FRE
Det er Nat paa vide Vande, langt fra Lande, [langt fra Lande]1. Valborgsnat så lys og skjær. Lavt mod Nattehimlens Rande ryger Dagens røde Brande og om Verden, fjernt og nær, tindrer tusind Stjernes Hær. Nat henover vide Vande.
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Text Authorship:
- by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893 [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), "Valborgsnat paa Havet", op. 31 (Ti Sange til Digte af Vilhelm Krag) no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Det er Nat paa vide Vande", op. 41 (Fem sange for mezzosopran) no. 4 (1897), published 1897 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2007-10-04
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Word count: 41