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Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung , opus 29

by Hans Harthan (1855 - 1936)

1. Volkslied  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
  Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär',
Und auch zwey Flüglein hätt',
Flög' ich zu dir;
[Weil es]1 aber nicht [kann seyn]2,
Bleib' ich allhier.

  Bin [ich gleich]3 weit von dir,
[Bin ich doch]4 im Schlaf bey dir,
Und red' mit dir:
Wenn ich erwachen thu',
Bin ich allein.

  [Es vergeht keine Stund']5 in der Nacht,
[Da mein Herze nicht erwacht,
Und an dich gedenkt]6,
Daß du mir [viel tausendmal]7 
Dein [Herz]8 geschenkt.

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Der Flug der Liebe", Rheinisch

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Als ik een vogel was", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David K. Smythe) , "If I were a little bird", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Si j'étais un petit oiseau", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Giulio Cesare Barozzi) , "Foss'io un uccellino", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Se eu fosse um passarinho", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Stimmen der Völker in Liedern. Gesammelt, geordnet, zum Theilübersezt durch Johann Gottfried von Herder, Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1807, page 482.

Modern spelling would change "zwey" to "zwei", "seyn" to "sein", "bey" to "bei", "thu" to "tu", etc.

Note: the first stanza is quoted by Treitschke in a text set by Beethoven, Ruf vom Berge, WoO. 147

1 Abt, Brahms, Greith, Henschel, Hiller, Hölzel, Jensen, Schumann, von Weber: "Weil's"
2 Greith: "so ist"
3 Hölzel: "ich auch gleich"
4 Hiller, von Weber: "Bin doch"
5 Hiller: "Kein Stunde"; Brahms, Henschel, Jensen, Schumann, von Weber: "Es vergeht kein' Stund' "
6 Hiller: "Da nicht mein Herz erwacht,/ An dich gedenkt"; Hölzel: "Wo mein Herz nicht in Liebe dein gedacht!"
7 Hiller: "tausendmal, viel tausendmal"
8 von Weber: "Herze"

2. Arabisch

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Träumende Herzen
 . . . . . . . . . .

— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Guido Eckards

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