Leiser, leiser, kleine Laute,
Flüstre, was ich dir vertraute,
Dort zu jenem Fenster hin;
Wie, auf Wellen sanfter Lüfte,
Mondenglanz und Blumendüfte,
Sende meine [Lieder]2 hin.

[Neidisch sind des Nachbars Söhne]3,
Und im Fenster jener [Schöne]4
Blinket noch ein einsam Licht.
Drum noch leiser, kleine Laute:
Dich vernehme die Vertraute,
[Nachbar nur]5 und Mutter nicht.

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Confirmed with Glycine von Friedrich Rochlitz. Erster Theil. Züllichau und Freystadt bey Darnmann 1805, page 235. Note: This is the first version of the poem. A revised version was published in 1822; see below.

¹ Danzi: "Leise, leise"
² Danzi: "Klagen"
³ Danzi: "Neid kommt von des Nachbars Söhnen"
⁴ Danzi: "Schönen"
⁵ Danzi: "Nachbarn doch"

Text Authorship:

• by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (1769 - 1842), "An die Laute", written 1803, appears in Glycine, first published 1805 [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 Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Leise, Leise, kleine Laute", op. 70 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 1, P 188 no. 1, published 1824 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Josef Bohuslav Foerster, August Harder, August Ferdinand Häser, Leopold Lenz, Franz Peter Schubert, Johann Xaver Sterkel.

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