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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Weh! weh!/ Du hast sie zerstört
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Geisterchor
 Weh! weh!
 Du hast sie zerstört,
 Die schöne Welt,
 Mit mächtiger Faust,
 Sie stürzt, sie zerfällt!
 Ein Halbgott hat sie zerschlagen!
 Wir tragen
 Die Trümmern ins Nichts hinüber,
 Und klagen
 Über die verlorne Schöne.
 Mächtiger
 Der Erdensöhne,
 Prächtiger
 Baue sie wieder,
 In deinem Busen baue sie auf!
 Neuen Lebenslauf
 Beginne,
 Mit hellem Sinne,
 Und neue Lieder
 Tönen darauf!

[MEPHISTOPHELES.
 Dies sind die kleinen
 Von den Meinen.
 Höre, wie zu Lust und Thaten
 Altklug sie rathen!
 In die Welt weit,
 Aus der Einsamkeit,
 Wo Sinnen und Säfte stocken,
 Wollen sie dich locken.]1

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•   A. Radziwill 

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1 omitted by Radziwill.

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I) [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 Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "Chor der Geister", 1820 [ chorus and voice and piano ], from Gesänge aus Goethe's Faust, no. 7, an edition from 1836 is mentioned by Hofmeister, published Wien, Trentsensky [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Fürst (1775 - 1833), "Geisterchor", published 1835, from Compositionen zu Göthe's Faust, no. 10, Berlin: Zum ausschliesslichen Debit in Commission bei T. Trautwein, Buch-und Musikhandlung [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2012-02-04
Line count: 30
Word count: 91

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