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by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803)

Die Sommernacht
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE HEB
  Wenn der Schimmer von dem Monde nun herab
In die Wälder sich ergießt, und Gerüche
Mit den Düften von der Linde
In den Kühlungen wehn;

  So umschatten mich Gedanken an das Grab
Der Geliebten, und ich seh' in dem Walde
Nur es dämmern, und es weht mir
Von der Blüthe nicht her.

  Ich genoß einst, o ihr Todten, es mit euch!
Wie umwehten uns der Duft und die Kühlung,
Wie verschönt warst von dem Monde,
Du, o schöne Natur!

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Confirmed with Klopstocks Oden. Erster Band. Leipzig bey Georg Joachim Göschen. 1798, page 234; and with Oden von Klopstock. WIEN, gedruckt bey Joh. Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, k.k. Hofdruckern und Buchhändlern. 1784, pages 218-219.


Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Die Sommernacht", written 1766 [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 Gottlob Bachmann (1763 - 1840), "Die Sommernacht", op. 33 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Oden, beym Clavier zu singen, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787), "Die Sommernacht", 1786 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Die Sommernacht" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Richard Heuberger (1850 - 1914), "Die Sommernacht", op. 21 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773 - 1836), "Die Sommernacht ", published 1794 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder in Musik gesetzt, Erste Sammlung, Zürich, Verlag des Verfassers [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748 - 1798), "Die Sommernacht", published <<1779, from Oden von Klopstock, mit Melodien von Christian Gottlob Neefe, no. 8, Flensburg und Leipzig: In der Kortenschen Buchhandlung; Leipzig: Bey Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Die Sommernacht", D 289 (1815), published 1895 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La nit d'estiu", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De zomernacht", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The summer night", copyright ©
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The summer night", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La nuit d'été", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Hamutal Atariah) , "ליל קיץ", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 83

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