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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Wär's dunkel, ich läg' im Wald
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG ENG FRE
  Wär's dunkel, ich läg' im Wald,
Im Walde rauscht's so sacht,
Mit ihrem Sternenmantel
Bedecket mich da die Nacht,
Da kommen die Bächlein gegangen,
Ob ich schon schlafen thu'?
Ich schlaf' nicht, ich hör' noch lange
Den Nachtigallen zu,
Wenn die Wipfel über mir schwanken,
Es klinget die ganze Nacht,
Das sind im Herzen die Gedanken,
Die singen, wenn niemand wacht.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Gumbert •   H. von Herzogenberg •   H. Pfitzner •   O. Schoeck 

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag, 1892, page 228.


Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Die Einsame, 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 Wilhelm Freudenberg (1838 - 1928), "Die Einsame", op. 29 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte.) no. 2, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Nachts im Walde", op. 70, Heft 1 (4 Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1855 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Die Einsame", op. 22 no. 1, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Notturnos, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Friedrich Gustav Jansen (1831 - 1910), "Die Einsame", op. 25 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1860 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Die Einsame", op. 9 no. 2 (1894-95), published 1898, first performed 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 2, Leipzig, Max Brockhaus [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl Rausch (1880 - 1951), "Die Einsame" [ voice and piano ], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die Einsame", op. 10 no. 2 (1907) [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Eichendorff, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Die Einsame II", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 7 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Waldesstimmung", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , "The lonely girl", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "S'il faisait noir, je serais allongée dans la forêt", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Jakob Kellner , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

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