Musik, deren Klang verebbt

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Music, when soft voices die

(Sung text for setting by F. Bridge)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER GER

Music, when soft voices die,	
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so my thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

Composition:

Frank Bridge

Three songs with viola

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Text Authorship:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ----", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824

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CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Musik, wenn leise Stimmen ersterben ...", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Musik, deren Klang verebbt

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Bridge)

See original

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Musik, deren Klang verebbt, 
in unsern Herzen weiterlebt -
Veilchendüfte, sich verströmend
leben fort, den Sinn betörend.

Rosenblättlein, abgepflückt,
vieltausendfach Dein Lager schmückt.
So soll auf Deinem Denken, Tun,
bist Du einst tot, die Liebe ruhn.

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