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English translations of Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte, opus 152

by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890)

1. Frohe Lieder will ich singen  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Frohe Lieder will ich singen", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Frohe Lieder will ich singen
Und vergessen [allen]1 Schmerz,
Und ich will mich fröhlich schwingen
Mit der Lerche himmelwärts.

Denn der Frühling hat [mir]2 wieder
Aufgethan [sein]3 [reiches]4 Herz,
Und so steigen meine Lieder
Mit [der Lerche]5 himmelwärts.

Und es lauschen rings auf Erden
Knosp' und [Blüthe, Stein]6 und Erz:
Sollt' es [dir nur kund nicht werden,
Wie dich liebt mein frohes]7 Herz?

Text Authorship:

  • by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 150

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Neunte Auflage, Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1887, page 112.

1 Kleffel or Ries: "meinen" (needs to be checked)
2 Randhartinger: "uns"
3 Lachner: "mein"
4 Merxhausen (Decker): "weiches"
5 Lachner: "den Lerchen"
6 Merxhausen (Decker): "Blüth' und Stein"
7 Merxhausen (Decker): "nie denn kund dir werden / Wie dich liebt mein ganzes"

by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874)
1. I want to sing happy songs
Language: English 
I want to sing happy songs
And to forget all my pain,
And I want to sail joyfully,
With the lark, toward the heavens.

For spring has once again
Opened its abundant heart,
And thus my songs mount
With the lark, toward the heavens.

And listening on the earth, 'round about,
Bud and bloom, stone and ore:
Could you not know
How much my glad heart loves you?

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2023 by Michael P Rosewall, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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  • a text in German (Deutsch) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 150
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Translations of title(s):
"Frohe Lieder" = "Happy songs"
"Frohe Lieder will ich singen" = "I want to sing happy songs"
"Frühlingslied" = "Song of Spring"



This text was added to the website: 2023-04-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

Translation © by Michael P Rosewall
2. Es rauben Gedanken den Schlaf mir   [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Es rauben Gedanken den Schlaf mir ", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Es rauben Gedanken
Den Schlaf mir, o Mutter,
Kommen und wecken mich,
Kommen und [gehn]1!

Trauergedanken
Von Freudentagen;
Aufdämmern die Plagen,
Die Freuden versanken.
Die Träume jagen
Vorüber, o Mutter,
Kommen und wecken mich,
Kommen und [gehn]1.

Es wird mein Bette
Dem Kampf zur Wiege,
Dem bösen Kriege
Zur friedlosen Stätte,
Von Schatten ich liege
[Geängstet]2, o Mutter,
Kommen und wecken mich,
Kommen und [gehn]1!

Stets mir im Blicke
Die Thränen beben,
[Beweinen]3 mein Streben
Nach falschem Glücke.
Bald sterben, bald leben
Meine Qualen, o Mutter,
Kommen und wecken mich,
Kommen und [gehn]1!

O Traum der Lust,
[Bei]4 dessen Scheiden
Erwacht das Leiden
Der wunden Brust!
Ins Leben schneiden
Die Qualen, o Mutter,
Kommen und wecken mich,
Kommen und [gehn]1!

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), no title, appears in Spanisches Liederbuch, in 2. Weltliche Lieder, no. 12

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Confirmed with Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse, Spanisches Liederbuch, Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz (Bessersche Buchhandlung), 1852, pages 40-41.

1 Smyth: "gehen"
2 Smyth: "Beängstigt"
3 Smyth: "Weinen"
4 Smyth: "Nach"

by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914)
2. Thoughts rob me of sleep
Language: English 
Thoughts rob me 
Of sleep, oh mother,
They come and wake me,
Come and go!

Sorrowful thoughts
Of joyful days;
Afflictions arise,
Joys sank away.
Dreams hurtle
Past, oh mother,
They come and wake me,
Come and go!

My bed becomes
A cradle for strife,
For the evil war [it becomes]
A place without peace.
I lie there [frightened]1
By shadows, oh mother,
They come and wake me,
Come and go!

Ever in my gaze
Tears tremble,
They weep [over]2 my striving
After false happiness.
My agonies, oh mother,
Now die, now live,
They come and wake me,
Come and go!

Oh dream of happiness,
[At]3 its parting
The suffering of
My wounded bosom awakens!
The agonies cut into
Life, oh mother,
They come and wake me,
Come and go!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2021 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Translations of title(s):
"Es rauben Gedanken" = "Thoughts rob"
"Es rauben Gedanken den Schlaf mir " = "Thoughts rob me of sleep"
"Es rauben Gedanken den Schlaf mir, o Mutter" = "Thoughts rob me of sleep, oh mother"
"Nachtgedanken" = "Night thoughts"

1 Smyth: "made anxious"
2 Smyth: "for"
3 Smyth: "After"


This text was added to the website: 2021-11-15
Line count: 36
Word count: 133

Translation © by Sharon Krebs
3. Im Herbste  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Im Herbste", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Seid gegrüßt mit Frühlingswonne,
Blauer Himmel, goldne Sonne!
Drüben auch aus Gartenhallen
Hör' ich frohe Saiten schallen.

Ahnest du, o Seele wieder
Sanfte, süße Frühlingslieder?
Sieh umher die falben Bäume!
Ach, es waren holde Träume.

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Im Herbste", appears in Lieder

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Confirmed with Uhlands Werke, Erster Teil, Gedichte, herausgegeben von Adalbert Silbermann, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., [no year], page 27.


by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862)
3. In Autumn
Language: English 
Greetings to you with springtime joy,
Blue heavens, golden sunlight!
Yonder, too, from the garden bowers
I hear happy strings resounding.

O soul, do you discern once again
Soft, sweet songs of spring?
Look about you at the dun-coloured trees. 
Ah, it was a lovely dream.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 46

Translation © by Sharon Krebs
4. Frühlingsglaube  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Frühlingsglaube", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Die [linden]1 Lüfte sind erwacht,
Sie [säuseln und weben]2 Tag und Nacht,
Sie [schaffen]3 an allen Enden.
O [frischer]4 Duft, o neuer Klang!
Nun armes Herze, sey nicht bang!
Nun muß sich [Alles, Alles]5 wenden.

Die Welt wird schöner [mit]5 jedem Tag,
Man weiß nicht, was noch [werden]6 mag,
Das Blühen [will]7 nicht enden.
Es blüht das fernste, [tiefste]8 Thal.
Nun armes [Herz]9, vergiß [der]10 Qual!
Nun muß sich [Alles, Alles]11 wenden.

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Frühlingsglaube", written 1812, appears in Lieder, in Frühlingslieder, no. 2, first published 1813

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Confirmed with Deutscher Dichterwald. von Justinus Kerner, Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué, Ludwig Uhland und Andern. Tübingen in der J. F. Heerbrandt'schen Buchhandlung. 1813, page 5; and with Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland. Stuttgart und Tübingen in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1815, page 54.

Note: some editions have a typo in stanza 1, line 2: word 4 is "wehen". Lachner's score also has this typo.

1 Klein: "lauen"
2 Kittl: "säuseln, weben"
3 Hanslick: "schaff'n"
4 Kittl, Unger: "süßer"
5 Kittl, Hanslick: "Alles"
6 Goetz: "kommen"
7 Goetz: "es will"
8 Kittl: "stillste"
9 Goetz: "Herze"
10 Kittl: "die"
11 Hanslick: "Alles"

by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862)
4.
Language: English 
Balmy breezes are awakened,
They whisper and move day and night,
And everywhere creative.
O fresh scent, o new sound!
Now, poor heart, don't be afraid.
Now all, all must change.

With each day the world grows fairer,
One cannot know what is still to come,
The flowering refuses to cease.
Even the deepest, most distant valley is in flower.
Now, poor heart, forget your torment.
Now all, all must change.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by David Gordon, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Translation of title "Frühlingsglaube" = "Spring faith"


This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

Translation © by David Gordon
5. Abendwolken  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Abendwolken", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wolken seh' ich abendwärts 
ganz in reinste Glut getaucht, 
Wolken ganz in Licht zerhaucht, 
die so schwül gedunkelt hatten. 
Ja, mir sagt mein ahnend' Herz:
Einst noch werden, ob auch spät, 
wenn die Sonne niedergeht, 
mir verklärt der Seele Schatten.

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Abendwolken", appears in Lieder

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by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862)
5. Evening clouds
Language: English 
 Westerly I see clouds
 fully colored as purest embers,
 Clouds completely diffused in light,
 and becoming oppressively dark.
 Yes, my dreading heart tells me:
 as now it becomes late and still,
 as the sun goes down,
 shadows transfigure my soul.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by John H. Campbell, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 41

Translation © by John H. Campbell
6. Leicht in dem Herzen und leicht auf dem Fuss  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Leicht in dem Herzen und leicht auf dem Fuss", op. 152 (Sechs Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1876 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Leicht in dem Herzen
Und leicht aus dem Fuß!
Freundlichen Leuten
Ein freundlicher Gruß!
Hängt sich Gram an Fers' und Kopf,
     Hopsa, hopsa, hinüber, herüber!
Dreh dich um, da liegt der Tropf.

Schnee auf dem Felde,
Und Eis auf dem Fluß!
Rosen auf Wangen
Und Frühling im Kuß!
Bist du bleich wie Noth und Tod,
     Hopsa, hopsa, hinüber, herüber!
Dreh dich um, gleich wirst du roth.

Sind auch die Tage
Im Winter nicht lang,
Macht man sie länger
Mit Wein und Gesang.
Fragst du: wann ist Fastnacht, wann?
     Hopsa, hopsa, hinüber, herüber!
Dreh dich um, so hebt sie an.

Text Authorship:

  • by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in Volksleben, in Allerlei Klänge aus dem Volksleben, in Fastnacht, no. 3

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by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874)
6.
[Translation not yet available]
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