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by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933)

Det er Nat paa vide Vande
 (Sung text for setting by A. Backer-Grøndahl)
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Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  FRE
Det er Nat paa vide Vande,
langt fra Lande, langt fra Lande.
Valborgsnat så lys og skjær.
Lavt mod Nattehimlens Rande
ryger Dagens røde Brande
og om Verden, fjernt og nær,
tindrer tusind Stjernes Hær.

Nat henover vide Vande.

Composition:

    Set to music by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Det er Nat paa vide Vande", op. 41 (Fem sange for mezzosopran) no. 4 (1897), published 1897 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2007-10-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 39

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