by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916)
Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager
Language: German (Deutsch)
Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager, Ich schlafe nicht, Meine gefalteten [Hände]1 ruhen In seinem Licht. Meine Seele ist still, sie kehrte Von Gott zurück, Und mein Herz hat nur einen Gedanken: Dich und [dein]2 Glück.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gesammelte Dichtungen von Gustav Falke, Erster Band: Herddämmerglück, Hamburg und Berlin, Alfred Janssen, 1912, pages 119-120.
1 Voigt-Schweikert: "Hände sie"2 Webern: "mein"
Text Authorship:
- by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Fromm", appears in Mit dem Leben. Neue Gedichte, in Eine Liebe [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Fromm", 1919 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Fromm", 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 40 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst G. Elsaesser , "Köln, Tischer & Jagenberg.", 1936 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gesänge, no. 2, Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Fromm", op. 71 (6 Lieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier) no. 6 (1930) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Fromm", op. 12 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Fromm" [ voice and piano ], from Three / Four songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (1882 - 1942), as Hans Lio, "Fromm", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2, Wien, Doblinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "Fromm", op. 46 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Fromm", op. 62 (Sechzehn Gesänge) no. 11 (1901) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 2 times]
- by August Reuss (1871 - 1935), "Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margarete Schweikert (1887 - 1957), "Fromm", op. 5 (Fünf Gedichte von Gustav Falke) no. 2 (1909), published 1913 [ voice and piano ], München, Wunderhorn-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Schwers (1874 - 1939), "Fromm", op. 23 (Fünf Gesänge für eine mittlere Singstimme und Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig: F.E.C. Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Fromm", op. 40 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 (1899-1901), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Fr. Bartels [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vilma von Webenau (1875 - 1953), "Fromm" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Fromm", 1899-1903, from Drei Gedichte für Gesang und Klavier, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Jethro Rithell) , "Devout", first published 1909
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Pieux", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Jeroen Scholten , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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