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Du liebes Auge, [willst dich tauchen]1, In meines [Augs]2 [geheimste]3 Tiefe, Zu [spähen]4, wo in blauen Gründen Verborgen eine Perle schliefe? Du liebes Auge, tauche nieder, Und in die klare Tiefe dringe Und lächle, wenn ich dir [dein Bildniß]5 Als schönste Perle wiederbringe.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Otto Roquette, Liederbuch, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1852, page 59
1 Röhmeyer: "tauche nieder"2 Franz, Reger: "Aug's"
3 Wolf: "geheimster"
4 Wolf: "späh'n"
5 Wolf: "dies Bild"
Text Authorship:
- by Otto Roquette (1824 - 1896), "Perlenfischer" [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 Rudolf Buck (1866 - 1952), "Du liebes Auge, willst dich tauchen", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerard Francis Cobb (1838 - ?), "Du liebes Auge willst dich tauchen", published 1885 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder und Gesänge für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Klemm [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Du liebes Auge", op. 16 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1852 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Adolf Jensen (1837 - 1879), "Perlenfischer", op. 61 (Sechs Lieder für 1 tiefe Stimme und Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1877 [ low voice and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Kniese (1848 - 1905), "Du liebes Auge willst dich tauchen", op. 7 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Karl Nössler (1863 - 1943), "Der Perlenfischer", op. 8 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Bremen, Präger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl, Graf Nostitz , "Du liebes Auge, willst dich tauchen", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Fünfzig Lieder, no. 43, Prag, Hoffmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Du liebes Auge", op. 35 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 (1899), published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], München, Aibl Verlag [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Theodor Röhmeyer (1869 - 1944), "Perlenfischer", op. 5 (12 Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Rosenberg (b. 1862), "Perlenfischer", op. 2 (Sechs erotische Gesänge) no. 6, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs erotische Gesänge für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 6, Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Richard Gotthilf Sormann (1861 - 1913), "Perlenfischer", op. 9 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Perlenfischer", 1876 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Pêcheur de perles", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Alberto Pedrotti , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 43
You dear eyes, would you submerge yourselves Into the most secret depths of my eyes, To espy, where in blue seabeds A pearl sleeps concealed? You dear eyes, plunge down, And penetrate into the clear depths, And smile when I return to you [Your own]1 image as the most beautiful pearl.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Du liebes Auge willst dich tauchen" = "You dear eyes, would you submerge yourself"
"Du liebes Auge" = "You dear eyes"
"Perlenfischer" = "Pearl fishers"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2017 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 Otto Roquette (1824 - 1896), "Perlenfischer"
This text was added to the website: 2017-09-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 51