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by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886)

Am Traunsee
 (Sung text for setting by J. Rheinberger)
 See original
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Schweigsam treibt mein morscher Einbaum,
Klar und ruhig wogt der See,
Purpurwarme Abendschatten
Färben der Gebirge Schnee.

Eines Eilands Klosterhallen
Tauchen dämmerhaft empor,
Münsterglocken hör' ich schallen
Und der Schwestern frommen Chor:

 Sempiterni fons amoris
 Consulatrix tristium
 Pia mater Salvatoris
 Ave, virgo, virginum.

Summend, singend, rein verklingend,
Süß ersterbend kommt der Ton,
Luft und Welle führen schwingend
Seinen letzten Hauch davon.

Und die Rechte senkt das Ruder,
Im Gebet erschweigt das Herz
Und mir ist, als trügen Engel
Eine Seele himmelwärts!

See also Zerlett's Ave Maria, which begins "Einsam treibt mein morscher Einbaum".

Composition:

    Set to music by Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839 - 1901), "Am Traunsee", op. 22 (Vier Gesänge) no. 1 (1863), published 1869 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch (1869), Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, (2004, ed. Manuela Jahrmärker)

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886), no title, appears in Frau Aventiure. Lieder aus Heinrich von Ofterdingens Zeit, in Heinrich von Ofterdingen, in Am Traunsee, no. 2

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Harry Joelson

This text was added to the website: 2007-06-11
Line count: 20
Word count: 87

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