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Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's Werke. Dritter Theil. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. Krieg den Philistern, Berlin, Verlegt von M. Simion, 1841, pages 254-255.

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte, in Der Umkehrende, no. 5 [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 Henk Bijvanck (1909 - 1969), "Waldeinsamkeit", 1957, from 2 liederen, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Collan (1828 - 1871), "Waldeinsamkeit" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Walter Courvoisier (1875 - 1931), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 27 (Geistliche Lieder), Heft 5 (Trost - Einsamkeit) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Botho Sigwart (Philipp August) Graf zu Eulenburg (1884 - 1915), "Waldeinsamkeit", published 1900 [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte, Heft 1, no. 1, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Adolf Fischer , "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 1 no. 1, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], from Vom Walde her. Fünf Lieder für Alt-Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Frankfurt a/O., Kressner [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 21 (Vier Duette mit Klavier) no. 1 (1893), published 1895 [ duet for high voice and low voice with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Waldeinsamkeit", 1995, first performed 1997 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], from ...was dem Herzen kaum bewußt... : Acht Chorlieder für Männerchor a cappella, no. 3, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
• by Egon Kornauth (1891 - 1959), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 37 (Sechs Lieder nach Eichendorff) no. 4 (1932) [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 5 no. 11 (1911) [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder: So Gott und Papa will, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898), as W. A. Rémy, "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 1 (Drei vierstimmige Gesänge für gemischten Chor a cappella) no. 2 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 76 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Senff [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johannes Schmidt , "Waldeinsamkeit! Du grünes Revier", op. 1 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 1, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Halle, Gräbner & Alban [sung text not yet checked]
• by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 30 no. 1 (1918) [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Julius August) Philipp Spitta (1841 - 1894), "Waldeinsamkeit", 1860 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 31 no. 2 (1904) [ vocal trio for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with piano ], from Drei Lieder für drei Frauenstimmen solo nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Herm. Wesseler , "Waldeinsamkeit", published 1900 [ baritone, men's chorus ], Münster, Tormann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 14 (Vier Gedichte von Eichendorff) no. 2, published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Wüllner (1832 - 1902), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 38 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], München, Aibl [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Heinrich Zöllner (1854 - 1941), "Waldeinsamkeit", op. 19 (Sechs Gedichte von Eichendorff für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 4, published 1883 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "Forest-Solitude"
• ENG English [singable] (Constance Bache) , "Forest solitude" [an adaptation]
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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