LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,447)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Elisabeth Kulmann (1808 - 1825)

Schweb' empor am Himmel
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE POR
  Schweb' empor am Himmel,
Schöner Abendstern!
Sieht im Glanzgewimmel
Jeder dich ja gern.

  Gehn sie auf, gehn nieder
Sie am Himmelsrand,
Keinen deiner Brüder
Schmückt ein solch Gewand.

  Ihr's scheint an den Kanten
Leicht mit Gold beklebt,
Dein's aus Diamanten
Durch und durch gewebt.

  Steht auch dir zur Seiten
Oft des Mondes Pracht,
Strahlst du doch bei Weiten
Hehrer durch die Nacht.

  Ihm leiht fremde Helle
Seinen Perlenglanz,
Voll aus eigner Quelle
Strömt dein Sonnenglanz.

  Schweb' empor am Himmel,
Schöner Abendstern!
Sieht im Glanzgewimmel
Jeder dich ja gern.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Schumann 

R. Schumann sets stanzas 1, 2, 6

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Confirmed with Sämmtliche Dichtungen von Elisabeth Kulmann, herausgegeben von Karl Friedrich von Großheinrich, Achte, vermehrte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main: Druck und Verlag von H.L. Brönner, 1857, page 286.


Text Authorship:

  • by Elisabeth Kulmann (1808 - 1825), "Kinderlied an den Abendstern", appears in Neue Gemäldesammlung in zwanzig Säälen [sic], in Sechster Saal, 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 Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "An den Abendstern", op. 63 (Neun Kinderlieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "An den Abendstern", op. 103 no. 4 (1851), published 1851, stanzas 1,2,6 [ duet for 2 sopranos (or soprano and alto) with piano ], from Mädchenlieder (Kulmann Lieder), no. 4, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]

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) , "Aan de avondster", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "To the evening star", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À l'étoile du soir", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Estrela da tarde", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2007-01-23
Line count: 24
Word count: 90

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris