sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by Johann Georg Jacobi (1740 - 1814)
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wie Feld und Au So blinkend im Thau! Wie Perlen-schwer Die Pflanzen umher! Wie durch's Gebüsch Die Winde so frisch! Wie laut, im hellen Sonnenstrahl, Die süßen Vöglein allzumahl! Ach! aber da, Wo Liebchen ich sah, Im Kämmerlein, So nieder und klein, So rings bedeckt, Der Sonne versteckt -- Wo blieb die Erde weit und breit Mit aller ihrer Herrlichkeit?
Modern German would change the following spellings: "Thau" -> "Tau", "allzumahl" -> "allzumal"
Note: Goethe mistakenly included this poem in his works in 1815. Several composers therefore attributed it erroneously to him (including Wolf and Franz). Referenced in Max Friedlaender's Das deutsche Lied im 18. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1902, reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1962.
Composition:
- Set to music by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Sommerlied", op. 50 (Sechs Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 3 (1838), published 1840 [ four-part men's chorus ], Leipzig, Kistner
Text Authorship:
- sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- by Johann Georg Jacobi (1740 - 1814), "Der Sommer-Tag"
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Zomerlied", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Guess) , "Summer song", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "En été", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Emilia Maxim , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2004-10-10
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