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Das einst ein Kind auf Erden war, Christkindlein, kommt noch jedes Jahr. Kommet vom hohen Sternenzelt, Freut und beglücket alle Welt. Mit Kindern feiert's froh den Tag, Wo Christkind in der Krippe lag. Den Christbaum zündet's überall, Weckt Orgelklang und Glockenschall. Christkindlein kommt zu Arm und Reich, Die Guten sind ihm alle gleich. Danket ihm denn und grüßt es fein, Auch Euch beglückte Christkindlein.
Confirmed with Peter Cornelius, Gedichte, eingeleitet von Adolf Stern, Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1890, page 144.
Text Authorship:
- by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Christkind", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Zu eignen Weisen, in Weihnachtslieder [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 Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Christkind", op. 8 no. 6 (1856), published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Weihnachtslieder, no. 6, Leipzig, Fritzsch; note: in 1979 Geoffrey Emerson wrote a clarinet part to go along with this song [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Christ-child", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Elsa Ebertz) , "The Christ-child"
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Gesù Bambino", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Colui che fu Bambino sulla terra, il Bambino Gesù torna tutti gli anni. Viene da lassù, dalla volta stellata, rallegra e fa felice tutto il mondo! Coi bambini si festeggia lietamente il giorno in cui Gesù Bambino giacque nella mangiatoia. Dappertutto si accende l'albero di Natale, desta concenti d'organo e suoni di campane. Gesù Bambino viene per poveri e ricchi, i buoni per lui sono tutti uguali. Ringraziatelo dunque, e salutatelo come merita, anche per la vostra gioia viene Gesù Bambino!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2011 by Amelia Maria Imbarrato, (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 Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Christkind", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Zu eignen Weisen, in Weihnachtslieder
This text was added to the website: 2011-01-07
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Word count: 81