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Note: Marschner's score gives the singer the option to replace "sie" with "ihn" in stanza 1, line 1, word 4; stanza 1, line 2, word 4; stanza 3, line 1, word 2.

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1796 - 1869), "Sehnsucht", appears in Gedichte, first published 1859 [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 Clementine Becker , "Als mein Auge dich fand", op. 8 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Frankfurt a/M., Steyl & Thomas [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Levolslav (Johann Leopold) Bella (1843 - 1936), "Sehnsucht", op. 5 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Sehnsucht", op. 16 (3 Lieder) no. 3, published 1860 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Herzberg (1819 - 1847), "Die Sehnsucht", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor) no. 3, published 1846 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Berlin, Guttentag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Sehnsucht", op. 34 (Drei Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1846 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Sehnsucht", op. 1 (Zwei Lieder für Mittelstimme und Klavier) no. 2, published <<1892 [ medium voice and piano ], Wien, F. Rörich [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich von Kerstorf , "Sehnsucht", published 1874 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf deutsche Lieder, für 1 Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 12, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Kossmaly (1812 - 1893), "Sehnsucht" [ voice, horn and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861), "Sehnsucht", op. 137 no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus (1827 - 1896), "Sehnsucht", op. 13 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1857 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Mikuli (1819 - 1897), "Sehnsucht", op. 27 (Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859), "Sehnsucht", op. 99 (7 Gesänge und Lieder) no. 3, published 1835 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Dresden, Paul [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Michael Quirin Reiter (1814 - 1875), "Sehnsucht", op. 3 (2 Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1842 [ voice and piano ], Basel, F. Hegar [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839 - 1901), "Sehnsucht", op. 55 no. 3 (1859), published 1871 [ soprano and piano ], from Liebesleben. Ein Cyclus von 8 Liedern, no. 3, Leipzig, Forberg [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Sehnsucht", 1896 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Reinhold Stöckhardt (1831 - 1901), "Als mein Auge sie fand", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder und Gesänge für eine Tenorstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1873 [ tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Dörffel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by August Walter (1821 - 1896), "Sie", published 1845 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 2, Wien, Haslinger [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website: 2009-05-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 67