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Mich hat der Herbst betrogen, Dir, Mutter, sei's geklagt: Die Schwalb' ist [weggezogen]1, Und hat mir's nicht gesagt. Und hat [mir]2 weggenommen Das Licht, den Sonnenschein, Und wenn sie wiederkommen, Werd' ich gestorben sein.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Friedrich Rückert's gesammelte Poetische Werke in zwölf Bänden, Zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: J.D. Sauerländer's Verlag (R. Sauerländer), 1868, page 563.
Note: Some later editions have the title "Winterahnung."
1 Reger: "fortgezogen"2 Reger, some later Rückert editions: "mit"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 12 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "Herbstlied", op. 1 no. 15, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Wonne und Weh in Wort und Weise. Liederreihe aus Dichtungen verschiedener Dichter, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 15, Leipzig, Eulenburg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Winterahnung", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder) no. 3 (1891) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Martha von Sabinin (1831 - 1892), "Mich hat der Herbst betrogen", op. 2 (Sechs Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Weimar, Kühn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Hermann Seyffardt (1859 - 1942), "Winterahnung", op. 14 (Vier Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (David Le Marrec) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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L'automne m'a trompée - Mère, que la plainte t'en soit confiée. L'hirondelle est partie au loin Et ne m'en a rien dit. Et a emporté avec elle La lumière, l'éclat du soleil, et lorsqu'elle retournera - Je serai éteinte.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2008 by David Le Marrec, (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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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 12
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 37