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by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)

Ach, wenn's nur der König auch wüßt'
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT CAT DUT ENG FIN FRE POR
Ach, wenn's nur der König auch wüßt',
Wie wacker mein Schätzelein ist!
Für den König, da ließ' er sein Blut,
Für mich aber ebensogut.

Mein Schatz hat kein Band und kein' Stern,
Kein Kreuz wie die vornehmen Herrn,
Mein Schatz wird auch kein General;
Hätt' er nur seinen Abschied einmal!

Es scheinen drei Sterne so hell
Dort über Marien-Kapell;
Da knüpft uns ein rosenrot' Band,
Und ein Hauskreuz ist auch bei der Hand.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Die Soldatenbraut" [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Die Soldatenbraut", 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 58 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 2 no. 6 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 9 (Acht Gesänge) no. 2, published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernst Friedrich Kauffmann (1803 - 1856), "Die Soldatenbraut " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Die Soldatenbraut", 1939 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Die Soldatenbraut", op. 64 (Romanzen und Balladen für Singstimme und Klavier (Heft 4)) no. 1 (1847), published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Soldatenbraut", op. 69 (Romanzen für Frauenstimmen (Heft 1)) no. 4 (1849), published 1849 [ SSAA chorus ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Die Soldatenbraut" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Die Soldatenbraut", VWV 1078 (1865), published 1880 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, from Fünf Gedichte von Goethe, Pushkin, Mörike, Geibel und Pohl, no. 4, Berlin, Bote & Bock, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation possibly by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883); composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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Other 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 © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het soldatenmeisje", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Sotilaan morsian", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La fiancée du soldat", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Noiva de soldado", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 75

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