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by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863)

Herbstbild
 (Sung text for setting by H. Pfitzner)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Dieß ist ein Herbsttag, wie ich keinen sah!
  Die Luft ist still, als athmete man kaum,
Und dennoch fallen raschelnd, fern und nah,
  Die schönsten Früchte ab von jedem Baum. 

O stört sie nicht, die Feier der Natur!
  Dieß ist die Lese, die sie selber hält,
Denn heute lös't sich von den Zweigen nur,
  Was vor dem milden Strahl der Sonne fällt.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 168.


Composition:

    Set to music by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Herbstbild", op. 21 no. 1 (1907)

Text Authorship:

  • by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Herbstbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte

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

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Autumn image", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Image d'automne", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 62

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