Liebst du um Schönheit | Liebst du um Schönheit

Liebst du um Schönheit

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CHI DUT ENG FIN FRE FRE ITA NOR POR POR SPA SWE

Liebst du um Schönheit,
O nicht mich liebe! 
Liebe die Sonne,
Sie trägt ein gold'nes Haar!

Liebst du um Jugend,
O nicht mich liebe!
Liebe den Frühling,
Der jung ist jedes Jahr! 

Liebst du um Schätze,
O nicht mich liebe. 
Liebe die Meerfrau,
[Die]¹ hat viel Perlen klar.

Liebst du um Liebe,
O ja, mich liebe!
Liebe mich immer, 
Dich lieb' ich immerdar.

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• G. Mahler • C. Schumann

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Confirmed with Friedrich Rückert, Liebesfühling, Elfte Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerländer's Verlag, 1880, page 218.

See also Louis-Alexandre Fortoul's Qu'aimes‑tu de moi ?, which seems to have been inspired by this poem.

¹ Mahler, C. Schumann: "Sie"

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 3. Liebesfrühling, in 4. Vierter Strauß. Wiedergewonnen [or Entfremdet], no. 40 [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 Max Joseph Beer (1851 - 1908), "Liebst du um Schönheit ?", op. 14 no. 4, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], from Sturm und Stille : Sechs Gesänge nach Dichtungen von C. Stögmann, O. von Redwitz, H. Heine, Friedrich Rückert, no. 4, Bielefeld, Sulzer [sung text not yet checked]
by A. T. Clauset , "Liebst du um Schönheit", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], from Andenken. Drei Albumblätter für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Rotterdam, Lichtenauer [sung text not yet checked]
by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Liebst du um Schönheit?", op. 37 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1887? [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: A. Büttner / Hamburg: D. Rahter [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arno Kleffel (1840 - 1913), "Liebst du um Schönheit ", op. 39 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911), "Liebst du um Schönheit", 1901-2, published 1905, from Fünf Rückertlieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 (1844/5) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 54 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1941 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896), "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 12 no. 4 (1841), 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. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Julius Stern (1820 - 1883), "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 21, published 1844 [ tenor, cello, piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800 - 1860), "Liebe um Liebe", published 1841 [ voice and piano ], from Liebesfrühling von Fr. Rückert. 9 Lieder , no. 1, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (1858 - 1915) , no title, written 1882 ; composed by Joel Engel, Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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