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by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776)

Sicheln schallen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Sicheln schallen;
Ähren fallen
Unter Sichelschall;
Auf den Mädchenhüten
Zittern blaue Blüten;
Freud' ist überall!

Sicheln klingen;
Mädchen singen,
Unter Sichelklang;
Bis, vom Mond beschimmert,
Rings die Stoppel flimmert,
Tönt der Erntesang. 

Alles springet,
Alles singet,
Was nur lallen kann.
Bei dem Erntemahle
Ißt aus einer Schale
Knecht und Bauersmann. 

Hans und Michel
Schärft die Sichel,
Pfeift ein Lied dazu,
Mähet; dann beginnen
Schnell die Binderinnen,
Binden sonder Ruh.

Jeder scherzet,
Jeder herzet
Dann sein Liebelein.
Nach geleerten Kannen
Gehen sie von dannen,
Singen und juchein!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Mendelssohn •   H. Nägeli •   F. Silcher •   C. Weyse 

F. Mendelssohn sets stanzas 1-3, 5
F. Schubert sets stanzas 1-3, 5
C. Weyse sets stanzas 1-3, 5
F. Silcher sets stanza 1
H. Nägeli sets stanzas 1-2, 5

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. Besorgt durch seine Freunde Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg und Johann Heinrich Voß. Carlsruhe, bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1784, pages 28-29; and with Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty's Sämtliche Werke kritisch und chronologisch herausgegeben von Wilhelm Michael, Erster Band, Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1914, pages 145-146.


Text Authorship:

  • by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Erntelied", written 1775, first published 1776 [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) Ludwig (Heinrich) Berger (1777 - 1839), "Erntelied ", op. 17 no. 8, published 1825 [ voice and piano ], from Neun deutsche Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 8, Berlin: bei Fr. Laue [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustav Blasser , "Erntelied", op. 20 (Hölty-Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 1 no. 4, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Kratochwill [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Sicheln schallen", stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Franz Xaver Mozart (1791 - 1844), "Erntelied" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773 - 1836), "Schnitterlied", published 1799, stanzas 1-2,5 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder in Musik gesetzt, dritte Sammlung, Zürich: im Verlage des Verfassers [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Erntelied", D 434 (1816), published 1850, stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Zur Erndtezeit", published 1842, stanza 1 [ vocal trio a cappella ], from Zwölf Kinderlieder für Schule und Haus, von Ernst Moritz Arndt, Agnes Franz, Fr. Güll, Hölty, Wilh. Müller, Christoph Schmid, K.W. Wiedenfeld etc. zwei- und dreistimmig, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "Ernte Lied", op. 40 (Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte von Hölty) no. 6 [ voice and piano ], Augsburg, Gombart, No. 290 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774 - 1842), "Sicheln schallen", 1790, stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DAN Danish (Dansk) [singable] (Rasmus Frankenau) , "Vipper springe over klinge", first published 1799
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Oogstlied", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Sickles clang", copyright ©
  • ENG English [singable] (Francis L. Soper) , "May Song", appears in Sixty melodies for youth, for two, three, and four voices, composed by Silcher, adapted to English words, for the use of schools and singing classes, first published 1850 [an adaptation]
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant de la moisson", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 94

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