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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Wär's dunkel, ich läg' im Wald
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG ENG FRE
  Wär's dunkel, ich läg' im [Wald]1,
Im Walde rauscht's so sacht,
Mit ihrem Sternenmantel
[Bedecket]2 mich da die Nacht,
Da kommen die Bächlein gegangen,
Ob ich schon schlafen thu'?
Ich [schlaf']3 nicht, ich [hör']4 noch [lange]5
Den Nachtigallen zu,
Wenn die Wipfel über mir [schwanken]6,
[Es klinget]7 die ganze Nacht,
Das sind im Herzen die Gedanken,
Die singen, wenn niemand wacht.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Gumbert •   H. von Herzogenberg •   H. Pfitzner •   O. Schoeck 

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag, 1892, page 228.

1 Gumbert, Herzogenberg, Pfitzner, Schoeck: "Walde"
2 Gumbert, Pfitzner, Schoeck: "Bedeckt"
3 Sommer: "schlafe"
4 Herzogenberg: "höre"
5 Pfitzner: "lang"
6 Gumbert: "rauschen"
7 Herzogenberg: "Es klingt"; Pfitzner: "Das klingt"

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Die Einsame, no. 3 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Wilhelm Freudenberg (1838 - 1928), "Die Einsame", op. 29 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte.) no. 2, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Nachts im Walde", op. 70, Heft 1 (4 Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1855 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Die Einsame", op. 22 no. 1, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Notturnos, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Friedrich Gustav Jansen (1831 - 1910), "Die Einsame", op. 25 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1860 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Die Einsame", op. 9 no. 2 (1894-95), published 1898, first performed 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 2, Leipzig, Max Brockhaus [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl Rausch (1880 - 1951), "Die Einsame" [ voice and piano ], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die Einsame", op. 10 no. 2 (1907) [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Eichendorff, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Die Einsame II", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 7 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Waldesstimmung", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , "The lonely girl", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "S'il faisait noir, je serais allongée dans la forêt", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Jakob Kellner , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

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

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