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Einen Bach, der fließt und sich ergießt, sanft wie ein Zephyr rauschet, Nymphen belauschet, Der sich schlängelnd und lenkt, Blumen und Wiesen tränkt, [schönen Reizungen schenkt, sich in Täler versenkt:]1, Ihm versprach die Natur, daß er nie verstocket, [wenn]2 er die Schläfer dieser Flur durch sein sanft Geräusch zum süßen Schlafe locket. Murmle Bach, dein gli, gla, glu, [selbst ein Amor seufzt]3 nicht zärtlicher als du!
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View text without footnotes1 Gluck (opera version): "Mit der Wellen Schaum / netzt des Ufers Saum"
2 Gluck (opera version): "Weil"
3 Gluck (opera version): "Amor selber seufzt"
Text Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt (c1725 - 1801) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787), "Lied des Meister Überschwang", 1764, from opera Die Pilger von Mekka [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787), "Holde Frühlingszeit" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Linda Godry) , "Song of the master Überschwang (exuberance)", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Virtaavalle purolle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-05-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 70
Purolle, joka virtaa laskeakseen suurempaansa, solisee vienosti kuin länsituuli, kuuntelee salaa nymfejä, joka kiemurtelee uomaansa etsien, juottaa kukkia ja niittyjä, antaa suloisia elämyksiä vajotessaan laaksoja kohti: Sille purolle Luonto lupasi, ettei se koskaan tukkeudu, jos se houkuttelee seudun paimenet lempeällä solinallaan suloiseen uneen. Solise, puro vain "gli, gla, glu, gla, gle, gli, glo, glu", ei Amorkaan huokaile hellemmin kuin sinä.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2009 by Erkki Pullinen, (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 German (Deutsch) by Charlotte Rittberg, Gräfin , no title
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt (c1725 - 1801) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-15
Line count: 17
Word count: 60