LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799 - 1851)

Was hilft der Liebe flehend Wort
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Was hilft der Liebe flehend Wort,
Da es das Herz uns bricht! 
Du weißt es wohl, ich muß nun fort,
Darf länger weilen nicht.
Leb'  wohl, mein Lieb!  Leb' wohl, mein Lieb!
Leb' wohl, auf immerdar! 

Du hast mich treu geliebt und heiß, 
Dich oft um mich gehärmt,
Getrocknet meiner Stirne Schweiß
Und mir das Herz erwärmt.
Leb'  wohl, mein Lieb!  Leb' wohl, mein Lieb!
Leb' wohl, auf immerdar! 

D'rum weine nicht, mein süßes Kind, 
Wie auch dein Auge brennt:
Die treu im Geist beisammen sind,
Die werden nie getrennt.
Leb'  wohl, mein Lieb!  Leb' wohl, mein Lieb!
Leb' wohl, auf immerdar!  

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   K. Reissiger 

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Confirmed with Einhundert Bilder und Lieder von O. L. B. Wolff, Jena: Friedrich Mauke, 1840. Appears in Volksthümlich, page 67.


Text Authorship:

  • by Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799 - 1851), "Lebewohl", appears in Einhundert Bilder und Lieder, in Volksthümlich, Jena: Friedrich Mauke, first published 1840 [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 Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Lebewohl", op. 30 (Deutsches Liederbuch), Heft 2 (Liebe) no. 9, Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Valentin Eduard Becker (1814 - 1890), "Lebewohl" [ men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859), "Lebewohl", op. 168 (Vier Lieder für Baß oder Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published c1842 [ bass or alto and piano ], Stuttgart: Karl Göpel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by F. Weber , "Was hilft der Liebe flehend Wort", op. 14 (Sechs Quartetten für Männerstimmen von O.L.B. Wolff) no. 4, published 1843 [ vocal quartet for male voices ], Cöln : Eck und Comp. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Witt (1819 - 1890), "Lebewohl", op. 48, published 1886 [ men's chorus ], Berlin, Bahn [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-09
Line count: 18
Word count: 105

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris