Ei Veichen, liebes Veilchen!
So sag' einmal doch an:
Warum gehst du ein Weilchen
Den Blumen all' voran?

"Weil ich bin gar so kleine,
[Drum komm ich]1 vor dem Mai,
Denn käm' ich nicht alleine,
[So gingt Ihr]2 mir vorbei!"

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¹ Ruckstuhl: "Erschein ich"; Wilm: "So komm ich"
² Ruckstuhl: "Ging't ihr an"

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• by Adolf Schults (1820 - 1858), no title, appears in Frühlingsfeier, in Blumen-Lieder, in Veilchen, no. 2 [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 Hermann Franke (1834 - 1919), "Ei Veichen, liebes Veilchen!", op. 46 no. 6, published 1876 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from In Feld und Wald. Ein Lieder-Cyclus für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Baß, no. 6, Regensburg: Alfred Coppenrath [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emil Krause (1840 - 1916), "Das Veilchen", op. 50 (Zwei Kinderlieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg. Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Irma Levaillant (1886 - 1968), "Das Veilchen", published <<1916 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Das Veilchen", op. 63 (Neun Kinderlieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Slansky , "Das Veilchen", op. 24 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Prag, Hoffmann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bruno Wandelt (1856 - 1933 ), "Das Veilchen", op. 6 (Acht kleine Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Peter) Nicolai von Wilm (1834 - 1911), "Das Veilchen", op. 229 no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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• by Carl Ruckstuhl (1838 - 1907), "Das Veilchen", published 1903 [ three-part women's chorus ], from Zwei Lieder für dreistimmigen Frauenchor, no. 1, strophe 1 is by Schults and strophes 2-3 are by Fisler
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) , no title, written 1872 ; composed by César Antonovich Cui, Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko.
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