Tnúthán (Volkslieder (Folksongs), set by (Johannes Brahms, Alfred Kohl)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Sehnsucht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE IRI ITA SPA

Mein Schatz ist nicht da,
Ist weit überm See,
Und so oft ich dran denk',
Tut mir's Herze so weh!

Schön blau ist der See,
Und mein Herz tut mir weh,
Und mein Herz wird nicht g'sund,
Bis mein Schatz wiederkommt.

Authorship

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , found in a slightly different form in Deutsche Volkslieder (Kretzschmer, Zuccalmaglio: Berlin, 1838-40), under the heading [author's text not yet checked 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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Sehnsucht", op. 14 (Acht Lieder und Romanzen) no. 8 (1858), published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alfred Kohl (1843 - 1887), "Sehnsucht", op. 5 (Sieben zweistimmigen Lieder mit Pianoforte ad lib. ) no. 2, published 1885 [ vocal duet with piano ad libitum ], Leipzig, Eulenburg [sung text not yet checked]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Verlangen", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Longing", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Nostalgie", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Tnúthán", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Struggimento", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfonso Sebastián) , "Nostalgia", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 41

Tnúthán

Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the German (Deutsch)

Ní hann do mo ghrá,
I gcéin, ‘bhfad i gcéin,
Is thar sáile atá,
Táim i bpéin, táim i bpéin!
 
 Na tonnta tá gorm
Is mo chroí bocht faoi bhrón
Is ní bheidh biseach orm
’Dtí go bhfillfidh mo stór.

Authorship

Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2014 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.

Gabriel Rosenstock. Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
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Based on

a text in German (Deutsch) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , found in a slightly different form in Deutsche Volkslieder (Kretzschmer, Zuccalmaglio: Berlin, 1838-40), under the heading

This text was added to the website: 2014-11-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 40