El solitari | Arreu on sóc, m’envolta

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CHI DUT ENG FRE ITA

Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt
Finsterniß so dumpf und dicht,
Seit mir nicht mehr leuchtend funkelt,
Liebste, deiner Augen Licht.

[Mir]¹ erloschen ist der süßen
Liebessterne goldne Pracht,
Abgrund gähnt zu meinen Füßen.
Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Strauss

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 166.

¹ Strauss: "Wie"

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Alexander Albrecht (1885 - 1958), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
by (Karl Friedrich) Gustav Brah-Müller (1839 - 1878), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Blätter für Hausmusik, Heft 6, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Musikalische Bilder, Heft I, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 (Lieder), Heft 2 (Cypressen) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by J. Dürck , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Sechs Lieder und Gesänge, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg (1878 - 1962), "Schmerzensnacht", op. 12 (Sechs Gedichte) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 132 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 4 (1947) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Wo ich bin", op. 69 no. 8 (1909) [sung text not yet checked]
by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Winterzyklus, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hermann Genss (1856 - 1940), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 13 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Hentze [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", A. 18 (1903-11?) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Moritz Hauptmann (1792 - 1868), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 19 (Zwölf Gesänge) no. 3, published 1848 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
by O. Heller , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 8 (Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolf Horwitz , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 no. 7, from Aus Heine's lyrischem Intermezzo : Liederzyklus, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (1894 - 1969), "Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht", op. 3 (Gedichte von Heine) no. 1, published 19--? [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Kuczynski (1846 - 1897), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 18--?, from Vierzehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht", op. 27 no. 2 (1885), published <<1890 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs ernste Lieder von Heinrich Heine und Paul Heyse, no. 2, Copenhagen, Hofmusikhandelens Forlag [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ladislao (László) de Makray , "Wo ich bin" [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt Finsterniß", op. 339 (Acht Lieder nach Heinrich Heine) no. 3 (2022) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by František Pivoda (1824 - 1898), "Wo ich steh, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 58 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Scott Root , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", c1999, from Herzen-Tränen : three art songs on texts by Heinrich Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jakob Rosenhain (1813 - 1894), "Lied", op. 21 (Sechs Lieder ) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Apolinary Scheluta (1884 - 1966), "Die Nacht", op. 12 (Buch der Lieder : von Heinrich Heine) no. 6, published 1909? [sung text not yet checked]
by Leander Schlegel (1844 - 1913), "Wo ich bin", op. 22 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexander Sebald (1869 - 1934), "Nacht", from Fünf Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Der Einsame", op. 51 (Zwei Gesänge) no. 2 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine's Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
by Peter Visser (b. 1939), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 1930 [ high voice and piano ], from Lieder auf Gedichte von Heinrich Heine, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", 1878 [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Wulffius (1867 - 1920), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in French (Français), a translation by Pierre-René Hirsch (1870 - 1891) [an adaptation] and by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955) [an adaptation] ; composed by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 63, first published 1827

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 40

El solitari

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

Arreu on sóc, m’envolta
una foscúria tan feixuga i espessa,
des que ja no m’il·lumina,
estimada, la llum dels teus ulls.

Per a mi, s’ha extingit l’esplendor
daurada dels dolços estels de l’amor.
L’abisme s’obre als meus peus.
Acull-me, nit eterna.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2014 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63
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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 41