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O Lust, o Lust, vom Berg ein Lied In's Land [hinabzusingen]1! Der kleinste Ton [hinunterzieht]2, So wie auf Riesenschwingen! Der stillste Hauch aus lauter Brust, In Leid und Lust entrungen, Er wird zum Klange, unbewußt Für alle Welt gesungen. Es schwingt sich erd- und himmelwärts Der Seele klingend Sehnen, Und fällt der ganzen Welt an's Herz -- Ob freudig, ob in Thränen. Was still sonst nur die Brust durchzieht, Fliegt aus auf lauten Schwingen, -- O Lust, o Lust, vom Berg ein Lied In's Land [hinabzusingen]1!
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Jucunde von Hermann Rollett, Leipzig, Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1853, pages 31-32.
1 Schumann: "hinab zu singen"
2 Schumann: "hinunter zieht"
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904), no title, appears in Jucunde, first published 1853 [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 Louis Anger (1813 - 1870), "Aus Jucunde", op. 11 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2, published 1860 [ four-part men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896), "O Lust, o Lust", op. 23 no. 6, published 1856 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 6, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "O joy, o joy", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 88
O joy, o joy, from mountain top through all the land I'm singing! The smallest tone dives ever down, like giant eagles winging! The softest breath from singing breast, when born in joy and grieving, is turned to song and unbeknownst to all the world is sung forth. It wings on earth- and heavenward this ringing spirit pining and moves the whole world at its heart - to laughter or to crying. What only in the heart is known, flies out on wings a-ringing O joy, o joy, from mountain top through all the land I'm singing!
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904), no title, appears in Jucunde, first published 1853
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 97