«Lebe wohl» - Du fühlest nicht (Mörike) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

«Lebe wohl» ‑ Du fühlest nicht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG FRE FRE ITA SPA

«Lebe wohl» - Du [fühlest]¹ nicht,
Was es heißt, dies Wort der Schmerzen;
Mit getrostem Angesicht
Sagtest du's und leichtem Herzen.

Lebe wohl! - Ach tausendmal
Hab' ich mir es vorgesprochen
Und in nimmersatter Qual
Mir das Herz damit gebrochen!

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¹ Graben-Hoffmann: "fürchtest" (according to Hofmeister); further changes may exist not shown above.

Authorship

by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Lebewohl" [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 Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Lebe wohl", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 13 (>>2000) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ferdinand Debois , "Lebewohl", published 1879 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung , no. 2, Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Lebewohl' du fühlest nicht", op. 4 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1908 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Lebe wohl", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 1 no. 23 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Lebewohl", op. 3 (6 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier) no. 4 (1920) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Dino Ghisalberti (1891 - 1949), "Lebewohl", 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Ventiquattro Camerale, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Lebe wohl", op. 88 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
by Georg Hering , "Lebe wohl, du fühlest nicht", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für gemischten Chor) no. 3, published 1879 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, (Friedrich) [sung text not yet checked]
by (Karl) Emil Kauffmann (1836 - 1909), "Lebe wohl! du fühlest nicht", op. 12 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, published 1879? [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], Stuttgart, Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Lebewohl", op. 134 (6 Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1868 [ alto and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Langer (b. 1887), "Lebewohl" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Lebe wohl!", published 1859 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Pressel (1827 - 1890), "Leb wohl" [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Lebewohl!", op. 21 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Lebewohl", 1939 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wolfgang Ulrich (1924 - 1995), "Lebe wohl", 1979 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean-Pierre Waelbroeck (b. 1954), "Lebewohl", 1994 [sung text not yet checked]
by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Lebewohl" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Lebe wohl", from Mörike-Lieder, no. 36 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 40