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Wenn du zu [meim Schätzel]1 kommst, [Sag: ]2 ich ließ sie grüßen; [Wenn]3 sie fraget, wie mirs geht? Sag: auf beiden Füßen. [Wenn]3 sie fraget: ob ich krank? Sag: ich sei gestorben; [Wenn]3 sie an zu weinen [fangt]4, Sag: ich [käme]5 morgen!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Mayer: "mei'm Schätzle"; Levinsohn: "mein'm Schätzel"
2 omitted by Mayer.
3 Albert: "Wann"
4 Albert: "fängt"
5 Albert: "käm schon"; Mayer: "komme"
Text Authorship:
- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "An einen Boten", appears in Des Knaben Wunderhorn [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 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Gotha, Prince (1819 - 1861), "An einen Boten", 1835-41 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Walter Eitze , "Wenn du zu mei'm Schätzel kommst", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 5, Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Wenn du zu meinem Schätzel kommst", op. 89 (Frühlings-Suite. Drei Gesänge aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn) no. 3, published 1930 [ men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard August Grell (1800 - 1886), "Einen Boten", op. 1 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 4, published 1837 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Horn (b. 1842), "Wenn du zu mein'm Schätzel kommst", published 1878 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Wien, Spina [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "An einen Boten", subtitle: "Volkslied", op. 75 (45 Lieder für dreistimmigen Chor a capella) no. 26 (1924) [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Kienzl (1857 - 1941), "An einen Boten" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Kohl (1843 - 1887), "An einen Boten", op. 5 (Sieben zweistimmigen Lieder mit Pianoforte ad lib. ) no. 1, published 1885 [ vocal duet with piano ad libitum ], Leipzig, Eulenburg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Levinsohn (d. c1907), "Wenn du zu mein'm Schätzel kommst", op. 8 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 4, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lise Maria Mayer (1894 - 1968), "An einen Boten", op. 11 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thorvald Otterström (1868 - 1942), "An einen Boten", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Catharina Van Rennes (1858 - 1940), "Volksliedchen", op. 6 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung = Drie liederen) no. 3, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Brix von Wahlberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Zipp (1914 - 1997), "An einen Boten", op. 5 (Wunderhorn Lieder) no. 3 (1935-6) [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by Heinrich , Freiherr von Herzogenberg, Werner Hübschmann, Franz Otto Sturm.
Set in a modified version by Carl Banck.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 50
When you come to my sweetheart, Tell her: I send you my greetings: If she asks how I am doing? Tell her: on two feet. If she asks if I am ill? Tell her: I have died; When she begins to cry, Tell her: I’ll be there tomorrow
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Translations of title(s):
"An einen Boten" = "To a Messenger"
"Einen Boten" = "A Messenger"
"Volksliedchen" = "Little Folk Song"
"Wenn du zu mei'm Schätzel kommst" = "When you come to my sweetheart"
"Wenn du zu meinem Schätzel kommst" = "When you come to my sweetheart"
"Wenn du zu mein'm Schätzel kommst" = "When you come to my sweetheart"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2024 by Michael P Rosewall, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "An einen Boten", appears in Des Knaben Wunderhorn
This text was added to the website: 2024-08-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 48