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Drei Lieder

Song Cycle by Eduard Steuermann (1892 - 1964)

?. Der Mensch  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Empfangen und genähret 
  Vom Weibe wunderbar,
Kömmt er und sieht und höret
  Und nimmt des Trugs nicht wahr;
Gelüstet und begehret,
  Und bringt sein Tränlein dar;
Verachtet und verehret,
  Hat Freude und Gefahr; 
Glaubt, zweifelt, wähnt und lehret, 
  Hält nichts und alles wahr; 
Erbauet und zerstöret
  Und quält sich immerdar;
Schläft, wachet, wächst und zehret,
  Trägt braun und graues Haar. 
Und alles dieses währet, 
  Wenn's hoch kommt, achtzig Jahr; 
[Denn]1 legt er sich zu seinen Vätern nieder, 
  Und er kömmt nimmer wieder.

Text Authorship:

  • by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815), "Der Mensch"

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Confirmed with Matthias Claudius, Werke, zweiter Band, sechste Auflage, [no editor named], Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes, 1841, page 108. Appears in Sämmtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Bothen, vierter Theil, Wandsbeck, 1774.

1 Petersen: "Dann"

Research team for this page: Matthias Gräff-Schestag , Melanie Trumbull , Dr Siglind Bruhn

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

  • 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

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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")

1 Kirchner: "von den Himmeln"; Hiller, Milcke: "vom Himmel" (further changes may exist not shown above)
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?"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 131
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