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Ez stuont ein frouwe alleine und warte über heide und warte ire liebe, so gesach si valken fliegen. "So wol dir, valke, daz du bist ! Du fliugest swar dir liep : du erkiusest dir in dem walde einem boum der dir gevalle. alsô hân auch ich getân : ich erkôs mir selber einem man den erwelten mîniu ougen. daz nîdent schoene frouwen. owê wan lânt si mir min liep ? Jô 'ngerte ich ir de keiner trûtes niet."
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Authorship
- by Dietmar von Aist (flourished 12th century) [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 Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "Ez stuont ein frouwe alleine", 1960 [ voice and piano ], from Drey Minnelieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Raymond Murray Schafer (b. 1933), "Der Falke", 1986 [ voice and orchestra ], from Minnelieder, no. 11, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Eine Frau für sich alleine stand", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Tino Brütsch
This text was added to the website: 2009-09-24
Line count: 14
Word count: 79
Eine Frau für sich alleine stand, hielt Ausschau übers weite Land und harrte ihres Lieben - sah einen Falken fliegen. „’s ist gut so, Falke, wie du bist! Du fliegst dorthin, wonach dir ist: Du wählst im Walde unter allen den Baum nach deinem Wohlgefallen. Desgleichen hab auch ich getan: Ich wählte selbst mir einen Mann. Mein Aug’ mocht’ ihn wohl leiden, was mir die Schönen neiden. Ach lasst mir doch den Liebsten mein, fordert' doch euren ich nie ein.“
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- Translation from Mittelhochdeutsch to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Mittelhochdeutsch by Dietmar von Aist (flourished 12th century)
This text was added to the website: 2015-01-25
Line count: 14
Word count: 80