by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850)
Die dunklen Wolken hingen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Die [dunklen]1 Wolken hingen Herab so bang und schwer, Wir beide traurig gingen Im Garten hin und her. So [heiß und]2 stumm, so trübe [Und]3 sternlos war die Nacht, So ganz, wie unsre Liebe, Zu Tränen nur gemacht. Und als ich mußte scheiden Und gute Nacht [dir]4 bot, Wünscht' ich bekümmert beiden Im Herzen uns den Tod.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Nicolaus Lenau, Stuttgart, Karl Göpel's Verlag, Cotta'scher Druck, 1869, page 182.
1 Bolko von Hochberg, Rübner: "dunkeln"; Horn: "trüben"; Schleuning: "schweren"; further changes may exist not shown above.2 Bolko von Hochberg: "heiß, so"
3 Bolko von Hochberg, Thuille: "So"
4 Thuille: "ihr"
Text Authorship:
- by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850), "Der schwere Abend", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Viertes Buch, in Liebesklänge [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 Albert Felix, Graf Amadei (1851 - 1894), "Der schwere Abend", op. 1 (Drei Gesänge für eine Alt- oder Baritonstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1873 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (1859 - 1937), "Der schwere Abend", op. 126 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Der schwere Abend ", op. 69 (Dichtungen von Lenau, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 20, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolph Bergh (1859 - 1924), "Der schwere Abend", op. 18 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Verlag Dreililien [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Beschnitt (1825 - 1880), "Der schwere Abend", op. 34 no. 4, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], from Albumblätter. Zehn Lieder aus der Mappe einer Freundin, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Berlin, Simon [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emile-Robert Blanchet (1877 - 1943), "Der schwere Abend", published 1902/3 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Karl Friedrich) Gustav Brah-Müller (1839 - 1878), "Schwere Abend", op. 24 no. 3 [ voice and piano ], from Welke Rosen: Vier Lieder, no. 3, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertha von Brukenthal (1846 - 1908), "Der schwere Abend", op. 20 (Zwei Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1877 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Schuberth & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ignaz Brüll (1846 - 1907), "Der schwere Abend", op. 5 (Zwölf Gesänge), Heft 3 (Drei Gesänge für mittlere Stimme) no. 2 (186-?), published 1870 [ medium voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oskar von Chelius (1859 - 1923), "Der schwere Abend", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernhard Dessau (1861 - 1923), "Der schwere Abend", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerrit Jan van Eijken (1832 - 1879), "Der schwere Abend", op. 8 (Zwei Gedichte) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Der schwere Abend", op. 71 (6 Lieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier) no. 3 (1930) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Der schwere Abend", op. 37 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 4 (1866?), published 1866 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leo (Lew) Franz (b. 1895), "Der schwere Abend", published 1884 [ baritone and piano ], from Drei Lieder für Bariton mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Freund (1852 - 1936), "Der schwere Abend", op. 4 (5 Songs) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. Friedland , "Die dunklen Wolken hingen", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Albumblätter. Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 4, Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927), "Der schwere Abend", op. 3 (6 Gesänge ) no. 3, published 1872 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Glickh (1864 - 1945), "Der schwere Abend", op. 18 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Rebay & Robitschek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848 - 1906), "Der schwere Abend", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 19, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Haine (1830 - 1910), "Der schwere Abend", op. 52, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot (1841 - 1918), "Die dunklen Wolken hingen", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Hey (1832 - 1909), "Der schwere Abend ", op. 10 (Acht Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 5, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Der schwere Abend", op. 100 (Neue Gesänge für eine Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte), Heft 3 no. 7, published 1863 [ voice and piano ], Stuttgart, Cotta [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Heinrich XIV, Graf Bolko von Hochberg (1843 - 1926), "Der schwere Abend", published [1895] [ voice and piano ], Offenbach am Main, Johann André, in Ausgewählte Lieder [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Der schwere Abend", op. 17 (Zwei Lieder für Bass mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 2, published 1906-1913 [ bass and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marie Charlotte Henriette von Kehler (1822 - 1882), "Der schwere Abend", published 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, Berlin, Barth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Krill (1847 - 1927), "Die dunklen Wolken hingen herab", op. 12 no. 5, published 1879 [ low voice and piano ], from Hohe Liebe. Sechs Lieder für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Berlin, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Der schwere Abend", 1839 [ voice and piano ], unpublished, incomplete (voice line is complete, but piano part is missing although there are empty staves for it) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emil Lindner (b. 1870), "Der schwere Abend", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, München, Schmid Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ödön (Edmund) von Mihalovich (1842 - 1929), "Der schwere Abend", published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 1, Pest, Táborszky & Parsch [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Milcke , "Der schwere Abend", op. 9 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Philipp (1890 - 1972), "Schwerer Abend", op. 1 no. 1, published 19-? [ alto, string quartet, clarinet, bassoon ], from Lenau-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benedikt Randhartinger (1802 - 1893), "Der schwere Abend" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Der schwere Abend", op. 25 (Vier Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1876 [ medium voice and piano ], Dresden, Ries [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frédéric Louis Ritter (1826 - 1891), "Der schwere Abend", op. 10 no. 1, published 1876 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Martin Cornelius Rübner (1853 - 1929), "Der schwere Abend", op. 16 no. 2, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from An Sie. Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Baden-Baden, Sommermeyer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martha von Sabinin (1831 - 1892), "Der schwere Abend", op. 2 (Sechs Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Weimar, Kühn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sárvár-Felsővidéki gróf Széchényi Imre (1825 - 1898), "Der schwere Abend" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Schleuning , "Der schwere Abend", op. 22, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Altona, Hinz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die dunklen Wolken hingen", op. 47 no. 1d (1931-3) [ baritone, string quartet ], from Notturno: Fünf Sätze für Bariton und Streichquartett, no. 4, Zürich: Hug & Co. Musikverlage [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Schultz (1827 - 1907), "Der schwere Abend", op. 20 (3 Duette für 2 Singstimmen mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1859 [ vocal duet with piano ], Breslau, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Der schwere Abend", op. 90 no. 6 (1850), published 1851 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gedichte von Nikolaus Lenau und Requiem, no. 6, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Sieber (1822 - 1895), "Der schwere Abend", op. 86 (Drei Lieder für eine tiefe Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1874 [ low voice and piano ], Cassel, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leone Sinigaglia (1868 - 1944), "Der schwere Abend", op. 23 (Drei Lieder) no. 1, published 1902 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Smolian (1856 - 1911), "Die dunklen Wolken hingen", from Laura. Ein Herzenserlebnis in drei kurzen Liedern, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862 - 1914), "Der schwere Abend", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Steinmann (flourished c1884-1906), "Der schwere Abend", op. 43 no. 1, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Hannover, Gries [sung text not yet checked]
- by Béla Szabados (1867 - 1936), "Die dunklen Wolken hingen herab", op. 5 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Der schwere Abend", 1878 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander Zarzycki (1834 - 1895), "Der schwere Abend", op. 11 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1868 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erich Zeisl (1905 - 1959), "Der schwere Abend", 1928 [ baritone and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) , no title ; composed by Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De drukkende avond", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The oppressive evening", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Pénible soirée", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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