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[O]1 Blätter, dürre Blätter! Wie trauert ihr so sehr! Als ihr noch gabet grünen Schein -- Da war mein lieber Schatz noch mein, Den hab' ich nimmermehr. O Blätter, dürre Blätter! Ihr habt ihn oft gesehn, [Wie]2 er [mir Treu versprochen]3 hat - Ach! kann [denn]4 Liebe wie ein Blatt In einem Jahr vergehn? O Blätter, dürre Blätter! Es war ein falscher Knab'; Euch klag' ich es, ihr schweiget still, Weil ich sonst niemand sagen will, Wie lieb' ich ihn noch hab'!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Stiehl: "Ihr"; Worms: "Ach" - further changes for both may exist not noted.
2 Zemlinsky: "Wann"
3 Hiller: "so heiss geküsst mich"
4 Zemlinsky: "die"
Authorship:
- by (Karl) Ludwig Pfau (1821 - 1894), no title, appears in Gedichte [1847], in 3. Lieder und Stimmen, in Mädchenlieder, no. 11 [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 Wilhelm Abt (1819 - 1885), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 119 (Sechs Lieder für eine Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1854 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach. André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Altmann (1875 - ?), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter " [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwei Mädchenlieder nach Texten von Ludwig Pfau, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gottfried Angerer (1851 - 1909), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", op. 80 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Eggers (1835 - 1861), "Mädchenlied", op. 9 (Drei Gesänge) no. 3, published 1862 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Hansen (1876 - ?), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", op. 51, published 1908 [ men's chorus ], Bonn a. Rh.: A. Heidelmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franciscus Johannes van der Heijden (b. 1848), "Mädchenlied", op. 21 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1882 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig u. Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Hill (1838 - 1902), "Klage eines Mädchens", op. 37 (Sechs Gesänge für eine mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1874 [ medium voice and piano ], Hamburg: Hugo Pohle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Mädchenlied", op. 129 (Zwölf Gesänge für Altstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 7, published 1867 [ alto and piano ], Hamburg: Verlag von Aug. Cranz [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gustav Adolph Hölzel (1813 - 1883), "Dürre Blätter", op. 173, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Isenmann (1839 - 1889), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 7 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fr. Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 80 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1908, copyright © 1908 [ mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano ], Magdeburg: Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Kirchner , "Mädchenlied", copyright © 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1, Leipzig: Otto Junne [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Kleinmichel (1846 - 1901), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 30 no. 8, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], from Acht Mädchenlieder, no. 8, Kassel, Voigt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eberhard von Lüneburg (1840 - 1914), "Dürre Blätter", op. 25 [ voice and piano ], Braunschweig: Julius Bauer vorm. C. Weinholtz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Maase (c1851 - 1932), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", subtitle: "Lied im Volkston" [ men's chorus a cappella ], Bochum i. W.: J. L. Rebbert's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agathe Mallachow , "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", op. 4 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Martin Aronhold [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Mandl (1859 - 1918), "Mädchenlied" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge, no. 14, Breslau: Julius Hainauer; score reportedly gives author of text as Otto Pfau [sung text not yet checked]
- by F. Muetzell , "Mädchenlied", op. 1 (Drei Lieder für Frauenstimmen) no. 3 [ women's chorus a cappella ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Rabl (1873 - 1940), "Mädchenlied", op. 4 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, copyright © 1897 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Renner , "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andreas Schaeffer (1868 - 1939), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", op. 8 (Männerchöre) no. ? [ men's chorus a cappella ], Stuttgart: G. A. Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Scharrer (1866 - 1936), "Mädchenlied", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Franz) Xaver Scharwenka (1850 - 1924), "Mädchenlied", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran) no. 2, published 1873 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Brüssel, London, New York: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Schauseil (1843 - 1892), "Mädchenlied", op. 23 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Siebmann , "Mädchenlied", op. 62 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Stiehl (1829 - 1886), "Klagelied eines Mädchens", op. 80, published 1872 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig: Fr. Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Strube , "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", published 1896 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Gebrüder Reinecke [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Heinrich Stuckenschmidt (1819 - 1870), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter ", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Breslau: Verlag von F. E. C. Leuckardt (Constantin Sander) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Theodor Töpken , "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianoforte (Heft I der nachgelassenen Werke), no. 6, Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Severin Warteresiewicz (1852 - 1923), "Mädchenlied", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 1, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig und Brüssel: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Wengert (1871 - 1925), "Herzeleid", subtitle: "Volkstümliches Lied", copyright © 1913 [ men's chorus a cappella ], Heidelberg: Carl Hochstein [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Peter) Nicolai von Wilm (1834 - 1911), "Mädchenlied", op. 222 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 4, published <<1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Worms , "Mädchenklage", op. 36 (3 Lieder) no. 3, Berlin: Richard Tourbié [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Ferdinand Würst (1824 - 1881), "Mädchenlied", op. 67 (Zwei Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: C. A. Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl (or Carl) (Adam Johann Nepomuk) Zeller (1842?4 - 1898), "Mädchenlied" [ voice and piano ], from Volksthümliche Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung, Leipzig: Josef Weinberger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "O Blätter, dürre Blätter", op. 5 (Acht Lieder), Heft 1 no. 3 (1897?), copyright © 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig & Kopenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "O leaves, withered leaves", copyright ©
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 81
O leaves, withered leaves! How very mournful you are! When you still had a green gleam, my dear treasure still was mine - he whom I have no longer. O leaves, withered leaves! You had seen him so often, when he promised to be true - alas! can Love, like a leaf, pass away in only one year? O leaves, withered leaves! He was a false boy; If I lament to you, you will keep silent, for I will tell no one else how much I love him still.
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by (Karl) Ludwig Pfau (1821 - 1894), no title, appears in Gedichte [1847], in 3. Lieder und Stimmen, in Mädchenlieder, no. 11
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 90