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by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)

Ach Gott, wie soll ich singen, wie lieb...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ach Gott, wie soll ich singen, wie lieb mein Schatz mir war:
Ich hab' sie sehen bringen auf einer Totenbahr.
Und will ich nun gedenken ihrer Finger weiß und fein, 
Fällt mir mit vielem Kränken ihr weißes Bahrtuch ein. 
Will durch den Sinn mir gehen ihrer Wangen roter Duft, 
Muß ich die Rosen sehn, die stehn auf ihrer Gruft!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Ritter 

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Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 65.


Text Authorship:

  • by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 1 [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 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1842 - 1899), "Ach Gott, wie soll ich singen ", op. 6a no. 4, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Schlichte Weisen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Berlin, Schlesinger ; note: we've added an 'a' to the opus because this opus was used by another publisher a few years later [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Ritter (1833 - 1896), "O Gott, wie sollt' ich singen", op. 2 no. 5, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Schlichte Weisen: Fünf Gedichte von Felix Dahn, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Max Zenger (1837 - 1911), "Ach Gott, wie soll ich singen", op. 13 (Fünf Lieder für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass) no. 1, published 1873 [ satb quartet ], Mainz: Schott, 1873 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (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: 2011-07-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 59

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