by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
Warum willst du And're fragen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Warum willst du And're fragen, Die's nicht meinen treu mit dir? Glaube nichts, als was dir sagen Diese beiden Augen hier. Glaube nicht den fremden Leuten, Glaube nicht dem eig'nen Wahn; Nicht mein Thun auch sollst du deuten, Sondern sieh' die Augen an. Schweigt die Lippe deinen Fragen, Oder zeugt sie gegen mich? Was auch meine Lippen sagen, Sieh' mein Aug' -- ich liebe dich.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Friedrich Rückert, Liebesfühling, Elfte Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerländer's Verlag, 1880, pages 217-218.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 3. Liebesfrühling, in 4. Vierter Strauß. Wiedergewonnen [or Entfremdet], no. 39 [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 Pauline von Decker (1811 - 1882), as Paul Friedrich Merxhausen, "Volkslied", published 1870? [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1, Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Müller [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi (1844 - 1919), "Warum", published 1899 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder, no. 3, Leipzig: Hofbauer; note: in some online catalogs the text is erroneously attributed to Friedrich Hahn but the Hofmeister Musikalisch-literarischer Monatsbericht shows an incipit matching this text [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philipp Rüfer (1844 - 1919), "Warum willst du And're fragen", op. 12 no. 3, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from 4 Gedichte aus Rückert's Liebesfrühling, no. 3, Offenbach, André  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Schumann, née Wieck (1819 - 1896), "Warum willst du and're fragen", op. 12 no. 11, published 1841 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte aus Friedrich Rückerts Liebesfrühling [nos. 2,4,11 by Clara Schumann; the rest by Robert Schumann], no. 11, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Julius Stern (1820 - 1883), "Die Botschaft", op. 15 (3 Duette für Sopran und Alt, oder Tenor und Bass mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1843 [ vocal duet with piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800 - 1860), "Zweifle nicht", published 1841 [ voice and piano ], from Liebesfrühling von Fr. Rückert. 9 Lieder , no. 5, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Per què vols preguntar als altres", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) (YiLing Chaing) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Waarom wil je 't anderen vragen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "Why will you question others", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Pourquoi demander aux autres", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Perché domandi ad altri", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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