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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön,
Das hab' ich jüngst im Traum gesehn,
Es ist so mild und engelgleich,
Und doch so bleich, so [schmerzenbleich]1.

Und nur die Lippen, die sind rot;
Bald aber küßt sie bleich der Tod.
Erlöschen wird das Himmelslicht,
Das aus den frommen Augen bricht.

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•   R. Schumann 

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 114.

1 Schumann: "schmerzenreich"

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 5, from Winterzyklus, no. 4 [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 John Clement Adams (flourished 1973-2002), "Dein Angesicht", published c1985 [ high voice and piano ], from Heine songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Björset , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Decker , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 22 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Brauer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eugen Degele (1834 - 1886), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 12 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5 (1846), published 1846 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward Baxter Felton , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", published 1900, from Three Songs, no. 1, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hermann R. Fichten , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Winterzyklus, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by A. Grote , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max J. L. Gus , "Dein Angesicht", op. 15 (Lieder), Heft 4 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by R. H. , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustav Hasse (1834 - 1889), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön", op. 27 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Hermann (1869 - 1912), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Zwölf kleine Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 10, published 1893 [ medium voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arthur Hervey (1855 - 1922), "Dein Angesicht", published 1884, from Herzens Stimmen, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Dein Angesicht ", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung I, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by B. Kreutzer , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 9 (Vier Lieder von Heine) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henry J. Lautz , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Heine-Lieder (Heine-Songs)) no. 5, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
  • by W. J. Otto Lessmann (1844 - 1918), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Vier Gedichte für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Joseph Messer (1811 - 1860), "Liebchens Angesicht", from Zwei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Harold Neidlinger (1863 - 1924), "Dein Angesicht", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernst Pusztay , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Ritter , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 4 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Rudolph , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Innsbruck, Gross [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Horace Rumbold , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 6 (Zwei Lieder von Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Apolinary Scheluta (1884 - 1966), "Dein Angesicht", op. 12 (Buch der Lieder : von Heinrich Heine) no. 8, published 1909? [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Dein Angesicht", op. 127 no. 2 (1840), published 1854, from [Fünf] Lieder und Gesänge von Kerner, Heine, Strachwitz, Shakespeare, no. 2, Dresden, Paul [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jul. von Scriba , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 5 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 2 (Fünf Gesänge von Heine und Müller) no. 1, published 1839 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 38 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Berthold Tours (1838 - 1897), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Sechs Gedichte : von H. Heine und F. Dingelstedt) no. 2, published 18--? [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Theodor Twietmeyer , "Dein Angesicht", op. 8 (Acht Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine'€™s Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by János Végh (1845 - 1918), as Johann Végh, "Dein Angesicht", 1864, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte, Heft 1, no. 2, Pest: Táborszky & Parsch; Wien: F. Wessely; Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, Nr. 72 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Im Traumbild", 1940, published c1984 [ medium voice and piano ], from 2 Heine-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by Oscar Strasnoy (b. 1970), "Es stehen unbeweglich" [ duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], from Heine, no. 4
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Gentil Theodoor Antheunis (1840 - 1907) ; composed by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Herbert Baines.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by A. Davenport ; composed by Edward Baxter Felton.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by William Noel Johnson.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bertha Raab ; composed by Henry J. Lautz.
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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anatole Claveau (1835 - 1914) ; composed by Auguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Jouw aangezicht", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
  • ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
  • FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 5, first published 1827
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , no title, appears in Pieśni Heinego, in Intermezzo, no. 5, first published 1880
  • RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 2 [an adaptation]


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

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