Ich ging im Walde So für mich hin, Und Nichts zu suchen, Das war mein Sinn. Im Schatten sah ich Ein Blümchen stehn, Wie Sterne leuchtend, Wie Äuglein schön. Ich wollt' es brechen, Da sagt' es fein: "Soll ich zum Welken Gebrochen sein?" Ich grub's mit allen Den Würzlein aus, Zum Garten trug ich's Am hübschen Haus. Und pflanzt' es wieder Am stillen Ort; Nun zweigt es immer Und blüht so fort.
Sieben Lieder für 1 Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte , opus 1
by Hermann Behn (1857?9 - 1927)
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Heft 1 -- 1. Gefunden [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Gefunden", written 1813
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "J'allais dans la forêt", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Il trovatello", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Heft 1 -- 2. Altes Minnelied [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
[Du bist mein! Ich bin dein!]1 Des sollst du [gewiß]2 sein. Du bist [beschlossen]3 in meinem Herzen, Verloren ist das Schlüsselein - [Du mußt immer darinnen sein!]4
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- a text in Mittelhochdeutsch by Wernher[r] von Tegernsee (flourished 1172)
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- ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Cornelius, Grabert, Kleffel, Meyer-Helmund, Mottl, Raff, Rosenthal: "Ich bin dein, du bist mein,"
2 Humperdinck: "gewiß mir" ; Rosenthal: "ganz gewisse"
3 Rosenthal: "verschlossen"
4 Cornelius, Kleffel, Meyer-Helmund: "Nun mußt du immer drinnen sein." ; Humperdinck: "Du mußt immer drinnen sein." ; Mottl: "So musst du stets darinnen sein!"; Raff: "Nun musst du immer darinnen sein."; Rosenthal: "Drum mußt du immer drinne sein"
Heft 1 -- 3. Wiegenlied
Language: German (Deutsch)
In dem Frieden heil'ger Nacht schlaf' in süsser Ruh'!
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Heft 2 -- 4. Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ein [Fichtenbaum]1 steht einsam Im Norden auf kahler Höh'; Ihn schläfert; mit weißer Decke Umhüllen ihn Eis und Schnee. Er träumt von einer Palme, Die fern im Morgenland, Einsam und [schweigend]2 trauert Auf brennender Felsenwand.
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 33
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "A spruce-tree stands alone", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "A fir-tree standing lonesome", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
- ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , "Song", appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
- ENG English [singable] (Arthur Westbrook) , "In northern land a pine-tree"
- ESP Esperanto (Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof) , "En nord' unu pino"
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 33, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Hamutal Atariah) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sta un abete solitario", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 1 [an adaptation]
Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 137.
1 Biegeleben: "Tannenbaum"; further changes may exist not shown above.2 Marx: "schweigsam"
Heft 2 -- 5. Geständniss
Language: German (Deutsch)
Was hast du mir gestanden, daß mir dein Herz gehört
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Heft 2 -- 6. Wandrers Nachtlied [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
Der du [von dem Himmel]1 bist, [Alles Leid]2 und Schmerzen [stillest]3, Den, der doppelt elend ist, Doppelt mit [Erquickung füllest]4, Ach ich bin des Treibens müde! [Was soll all der Schmerz und Lust?]5 Süßer Friede, Komm, ach komm in meine Brust!
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Wandrers Nachtlied", written 1776, first published 1780
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- AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Trekkers nachtlied", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Wanderer's night song", copyright ©
- ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "The wanderer's night-song", appears in The Poems of Goethe, first published 1853
- ENG English [singable] (Charles Fonteyn Manney) , "O thou who from heaven art", first published 1911
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le chant de nuit du voyageur I", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRL Friulian (Ermes Culos) , "Tu ch'i ti vèns dal paradìs", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Canto notturno del viandante II", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Lewis Grenville) , "La cancion nocturna del caminante", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Goethe’s Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Erster Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1827, page 109.
First published in Christliches Magazin Herausgegeben von Joh. Konrad Pfenninger, Dritter Band, 1780, page 243, with the musical setting by Ph. Ch. Kayser.
Notes
Line 1: Backer-Grøndahl’s score has a comma after the first word (likely a typo)
Line 8: Backer-Grøndahl's score has a typo in word 5 ("meiner" instead of "meine")
2 Rust: "Kummer, Leid"
3 Schubert: "stillst"
4 Schubert: "Entzückung füllst"
5 Rust: "Bangen Schmerzes, wilder Lust,"; Arnim and J. Marx: "Was soll all der Schmerz, die Lust?"
Heft 2 -- 7. Nun die Schatten dunkeln [sung text not yet checked]
Language: German (Deutsch)
[Nun]1 die Schatten dunkeln, Stern [an]2 Stern erwacht: Welch ein Hauch der Sehnsucht Flutet [in der]3 Nacht! Durch das [Meer]4 der Träume Steuert ohne Ruh', [Steuert]5 meine Seele Deiner Seele zu. Die sich dir ergeben, Nimm sie ganz dahin! Ach, du weißt, daß nimmer Ich [mein]6 eigen bin.
Text Authorship:
- by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), "Für Musik", appears in Juniuslieder, in Lieder
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- ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "Now the shadows are darkening", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "For music", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Constance Bache) (William Stigand, né Stigant) , "Now the shades are deep'ning"
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Emanuel Geibel, Juniuslieder, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1848, page 34.
1 Lewy: "Wenn"; further changes may exist not shown above.2 Bolko von Hochberg: "bei"
3 Bolko von Hochberg, Hermann, Rubinstein, Schachner, Zumpe: "durch die"
4 Bolko von Hochberg: "Reich"
5 Hermann: "Sehnend"
6 Schachner: "mir"