LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,449)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Carl (Theodor) Weitbrecht (1847 - 1904)

Und wer die schönste Blume malt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Und wer die schönste Blume malt,
Der malt nicht ihren Duft,
Und wer mein Lieb beschreiben will,
Der schreibt in leere Luft.

Sie ist als wie ein Morgenhauch
So frisch und so geschwind —
Wer diesen malt, der male mir
Mein wunderholdes Kind!

About the headline (FAQ)

Note: the first stanza is a loose translation of the last stanza of "Suscipe, flos, florem" from Carmina Burana; Wolf's title comes from the third line of that stanza.

Text Authorship:

  • by Carl (Theodor) Weitbrecht (1847 - 1904), no title, appears in Jugendstimmungen [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 Leopold Carl Wolf (1859 - 1932), "Qui pingit florem", op. 23 (Sechs Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1891 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-02-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris