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English translations of Drei vierstimmige Gesänge für gemischten Chor a cappella, opus 1

by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898), as W. A. Rémy

1. Waldeinsamkeit  [sung text not yet checked]
by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898), as W. A. Rémy, "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 1 (Drei vierstimmige Gesänge für gemischten Chor a cappella) no. 2 [ chorus a cappella ]
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Waldeinsamkeit!
Du [grünes]1 Revier,
Wie liegt so weit
Die Welt von hier!
Schlaf nur, wie bald
Kommt der Abend schön,
Durch den stillen Wald
Die Quellen gehn,
Die Mutter Gottes wacht,
Mit ihrem Sternenkleid
Bedeckt sie dich sacht
In der Waldeinsamkeit,
[Gute Nacht,]2 Gute Nacht! -

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte, in Der Umkehrende, no. 5

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Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's Werke. Dritter Theil. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. Krieg den Philistern, Berlin, Verlegt von M. Simion, 1841, pages 254-255.

1 Wolff: "schönes"
2 omitted by Wolff.

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)
1.
[Translation not yet available]
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