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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862)

Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Ich [wandelte]1 unter den Bäumen
mit meinem Gram allein;
da kam das alte Träumen
und schlich [mir ins Herz]2 hinein.

Wer hat euch dies Wörtlein gelehret,
ihr Vöglein in luftiger Höh'?
Schweigt still! wenn mein Herz es höret,
dann tut es noch einmal so weh.

"Es kam ein Jungfräulein gegangen,
die sang es immerfort,
da haben wir Vöglein gefangen
das hübsche, goldne Wort."

Das sollt ihr mir nicht [mehr]3 erzählen,
Ihr Vöglein [wunderschlau]4;
ihr wollt meinem Kummer mir stehlen,
ich aber niemandem trau'.

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1 Dieren: "wanderte"
2 Fanny Mendelssohn: "ins Herz mir"
3 omitted by Rheinberger and Schumann.
4 Rheinberger: "so wunderschlau"

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Junge Leiden, in Lieder, no. 3

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Ik wandelde onder de bomen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "I wandered among the trees", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Je déambulais sous les arbres", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Erravo sotto gli alberi", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 87

Бродил я под тенью деревьев
 (Sung text for setting by E. Denisov)
 Matches base text
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Бродил я под тенью деревьев,
Один со своею тоской,
И снова старая грёза
Впилась мне в сердце змеёй.

Певицы воздушные! Где вы
Подслушали песнь мою?
Заслышу её и снова
Отраву смертельную пью.

«Гуляла девица и пела
Ту песню раз, и не раз
У ней мы подслушали песню,
Она осталась у нас».

Молчите, лукавые птицы!
Я знаю, хочется вам
Тоску мою похитить...
Да я-то её не отдам!

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Note on Transliterations

Composition:

    Set to music by Edison Vasilyevich Denisov (1929 - 1996), "Бродил я под тенью деревьев", published 1958 [ baritone and piano ], from Страдания юности (Stradanija junosti), no. 5

Text Authorship:

  • by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862)

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Junge Leiden, in Lieder, no. 3
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Researcher for this page: Dmitri Smirnov

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 66

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