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by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850)

Lethe! Brich die Fesseln des Ufers,...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Lethe! Brich die Fesseln des Ufers, gieße 
Aus der Schattenwelt mir herüber deine 
Welle, daß den Wunden der bangen Seel' ich
  Trinke Genesung.1

Frühling kommt mit Duft und Gesang und Liebe,
Will wie sonst mir sinken ans Herz; doch schlägt ihm 
Nicht das Herz entgegen wie sonst. -- O Lethe! 
  Sende die Welle!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   W. Kienzl 

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1 Kienzl adds the echo "Daß ich Trinke Genesung"

Text Authorship:

  • by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", written 1822, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Oden [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Lethe", c1888, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 4, Berlin, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 69 (Dichtungen von Lenau, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 27, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Moritz Bauer (1875 - 1932), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder für 1 tiefe Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, München, Schmid Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Ernst Anton Becker (1834 - 1899), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 93 (Fünf ernste Gesänge für Männerchor) no. 1, published 1899 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mary Clement, née Mary Wilcken (1861 - c1907), "An Lethe", op. 7 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Stern [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anton Eberhardt (1855 - 1922), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 20, Heft 3 no. 29, published 1891 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Amata. Ein Cyklus von 30 Liedern für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianoforte, no. 29, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Emil Ehrismann , "Lethe", published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 11, Berlin, Luckhardt  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Lethe", op. 40 (Vier Gesänge für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1883 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 57 (Sieben Lieder) no. 6 (1912) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilhelm Kienzl (1857 - 1941), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 39 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by George Washington Magnus (1863 - 1917), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 30 (4 Lieder) no. 1 (1922) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Adolf Stemler , "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 3 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1893 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger (1876 - 1941), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen ", op. 1 (Zwei Gesänge) no. 2 (1905) [ voice and piano ], Zentralbibliothek Zürich, MS [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Severin Warteresiewicz (1852 - 1923), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", op. 6 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 3, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Sehnsucht nach Vergessen", 1906 [ SATB quartet and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Palmer) , "Longing to forget", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Désir d'oubli", copyright © 2011, (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: 8
Word count: 53

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