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"Ich will ja nicht [zum]1 Garten gehn, Will liegen sommerlang, [Hört' ich die lust'ge]2 Drossel nur, Die in dem Busche sang." Man fängt dem Kind die Drossel ein, Im Käfig sitzt sie dort, Doch singen will sie nicht und hängt Ihr Köpfchen immerfort. Noch einmal blickt das Kind nach ihr Mit bittendem Gesicht, Da schlägt die Drossel schön und hell, Da glänzt sein Aug' und bricht.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Uhlands Werke, Erster Teil, Gedichte, herausgegeben von Adalbert Silbermann, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., [no year], page 142
1 Strauss: "in"2 Strauss: "Hör' ich die liebe"
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Die Drossel", appears in Balladen und Romanzen, in Sterbeklänge, no. 3 [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 Gerhard Haase , "Die Drossel", op. 2 no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Liedercyklus für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 3, Elberfeld, Küpper [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Paumgartner , "Die Drossel", published 1890 [ female voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte, no. 3, Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Pochhammer (1864 - 1931), "Das Kind und die Drossel", op. 3 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Proch (1809 - 1878), "Die Drossel", op. 215 no. 3, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Sterbeklänge, no. 3, Wien, Schreiber [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Die Drossel", WoO. 34 (1877) [ voice, piano ], from Jugendlieder [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El tord", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The thrush", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La grive", copyright © 2010, (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: 12
Word count: 68
"I would not want to go to the garden, I would lie here for the whole summer, [If I could only hear the merry]1 thrush That sang in the bushes." They catch the thrush for the child, It sits there in a cage, But it does not want to sing and hangs Its little head always. The child looks at it one more time With a pleading countenance, Whereupon the thrush throbs beautifully and brightly, [The child’s] eyes shine and close in death.
1 Strauss: "into"
2 Strauss: "If only I hear the dear"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2016 by Sharon Krebs, (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 Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Die Drossel", appears in Balladen und Romanzen, in Sterbeklänge, no. 3
This text was added to the website: 2016-07-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 84