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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

O du stille Zeit!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
O du stille Zeit!
Kommst, eh' wir's gedacht,
Über die Berge weit
[Nun rauschet es so sacht
In der Waldeinsamkeit,
Gute Nacht ---]1

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Bresgen 

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Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's Werke. Dritter Theil. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. Krieg den Philistern, Berlin, Verlegt von M. Simion, 1841, page 255.

1 Bresgen:
Gute Nacht!
In der Einsamkeit
rauscht es nun sacht,
Über die Berge weit,
Gute Nacht!

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title [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 Cesar Bresgen (1913 - 1988), "O du stille Zeit" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Cesar Bresgen (1913 - 1988), "O du stille Zeit!", 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Eichendorff-Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier, Bad Godesberg / Potsdam: Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2019-03-15
Line count: 6
Word count: 24

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