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by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831)

Lehnst du deine bleichgehärmte Wange
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Lehnst du deine bleichgehärmte Wange
Immer noch an diesen Aschenkrug?
Weinend um den Todten, den schon lange
Zu der Seraphim Triumphgesange
Der Vollendung Flügel trug?

Siehst du Gottes Sternenschrift dort flimmern,
Die der bangen Schwermuth Trost verheißt?
Heller wird der Glaube [nun dir]1 schimmern,
Daß hoch über seiner Hülle Trümmern
Walle des Geliebten Geist!

Wohl, o wohl dem liebenden Gefährten
Deiner Sehnsucht, er ist ewig dein!
Wiedersehn, im Lande der Verklärten,
Wirst du, Dulderin, den Langentbehrten,
Und wie er unsterblich seyn!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schubert 

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson. Erster Theil. Tübingen, bei Cotta, 1811, page 90, and with Friedrich von Matthisson, Gedichte, fifteenth edition, Zurich: Orell, Fuessli & Co., 1851, page 63.

First published in Musen-Almanach für 1786, herausgegeben von Voß und Goeking, Hamburg, bey Carl Ernst Bohn, pages 24-25, with the title "Die Unsterblichkeit", subtitle "An Elisa". This first edition has an additional (third) stanza which was left out in later editions.

1 Schubert: "dir nun"

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Trost an Elisa", written 1783, appears in Wanderjahre in Deutschland (1784-1787), first published 1786 [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 Ludwig Abeille (1761 - 1838), "Trost, an Elisa" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Elegien von F. v. Matthisson für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Christian Baldewein (1784 - 1848), "Trost an Elisa" [ soprano and piano ], from Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. 1 Heft, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by August Heinrich Leberecht August Mühling (1786 - 1847), "Trost an Elisa", [c1806] [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 4, Leipzig: A. Kühnel (Bureau de Musique) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Trost", published 1797 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge der Klage und des Trostes, no. 4, Berlin, Johann Friedrich Unger [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 - 1796), "Trost. An Elisa", published 1796 [ voice and piano ], from Oden und Lieder aus den besten deutschen Dichtern, Zweite Sammlung, no. 11, Leipzig: Bei Georg August Grieshammer [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Trost. An Elisa", D 97 (1814), published 1894 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Troost voor Elisa", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Comfort for Elisa", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Réconfort pour Élise", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Melanie Trumbull , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 82

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