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by Siegfried Trebitsch (1869 - 1956)

Nachts
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG
Streiche, o friedlicher Abendwind, sacht
über die glühende Stirne.
[Locket]1, ihr duftenden Lieder der Nacht,
leise herauf die Gestirne.

Laßt mir erlösende Träume erstehn,
Antwort singt all meinen Fragen,
laßt mich das Leben [erkennen]2 und sehn,
ob seine Wellen mich tragen.

Hört mich, ihr Sterne, und hemmet den Lauf.
stillt erst mein Sehnen und Leiden!
Zehrende Wünsche zittern herauf:
Gibt es nichts denn als Scheiden?

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   E. Korngold 

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Confirmed with Siegfried Trebitsch, Wellen und Wege, München und Leipzig: bei Georg Müller, 1913, page 34.

1 Korngold: "Lobet"
2 Korngold: "ersinnen"

Text Authorship:

  • by Siegfried Trebitsch (1869 - 1956), "Nachts", appears in Wellen und Wege [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Nachts", 1911/3, from Einfache Lieder, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Paul Hindemith) , "By Night", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "At night", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Peter Donderwinkel , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

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