LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,482)
  • 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 Wilhelm Häring (1798 - 1871), as Willibald Alexis

Liebe Mutter, heut' Nacht heulte Regen...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE ITA
"Liebe Mutter, heut' Nacht heulte Regen und Wind."--
""'s ist heute der erste Mai, liebes Kind!""

"Liebe Mutter, es donnerte auf dem Brocken oben!"--
""Lieb's Kind, es waren die Hexen droben.""--

"Liebe Mutter, ich möcht' keine Hexen sehn."
""Lieb's  Kind, es ist wohl schon oft geschehn.""

"Liebe Mutter, ob wohl im Dorf' Hexen sind?"--
""Sie sind Dir wohl näher, mein liebes Kind.""--

"Ach Mutter, worauf fliegen die Hexen zum Berg?"
""Lieb's Kind, auf dem Rauche von glühendem Werg.""

"Ach Mutter, worauf reiten die Hexen zum Spiel?"
""Lieb's Kind, sie reiten auf 'nem Besenstiel.""

"Ach Mutter, 's standen gestern im Dorf' viel Besen!"
""Es sind auch viel Hexen auf'm Brocken gewesen. ""

"Ach Mutter, die Nacht hat's im Schornstein geraucht!"
""Lieb's Kind, es hat einer das Werg gebraucht.""

"Ach Mutter, die Nacht war Dein Besen nicht zu Haus!"
""Lieb's, so war er zum Blocksberg hinaus.""

"Ach Mutter, Dein Bett war leer in der Nacht!"
""Deine Mutter hat oben auf'm Brocken gewacht.""

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Loewe 

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Confirmed with Willibald Alexis, "Über Balladenpoesie", in Hermes oder kritisches Jahrbuch der Literatur , Erstes Stück für das Jahr 1824, Volume XXI, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1824, pages 107-108.


Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Häring (1798 - 1871), as Willibald Alexis, no title [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 Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Walpurgisnacht", op. 2 no. 3 (1824) [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Johannes Brahms.

  • Go to the text. [ view differences ] CAT DUT ENG

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

  • ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , "Walpurgis Night", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Nuit de Walpurgis", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Notte di Valpurga", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Lawrence Snyder , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 183

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