by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Wenn ich mir in stiller Seele
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wenn ich mir in stiller Seele Singe leise Lieder vor: Wie ich fühle, daß sie fehle, Die ich einzig auserkohr; Möcht' ich hoffen, daß sie sänge, Was ich ihr so gern vertraut; Ach! aus dieser Brust und Enge Drängen frohe Lieder laut.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Goethe's poetische und prosaische Werke, Erster Band, Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1836, page 200.
Note (provided by Lau Kanen): Goethe dedicated ‘Wenn ich mir in stiller Seele’ to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel in 1827.
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title [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 Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Wenn ich mir in stiller Seele", 1828, published 1999 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oscar Niemann (1860 - 1893), "An die Entfernte", op. 3 no. 4, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig; Senf [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Otto Nodnagel (1870 - 1909), "An die Entfernte", op. 23 no. 1, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Scheidegruss. Vier lyrische Recitative für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, Leipzig, Schuberth & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "When, in my quiet soul", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-25
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