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by Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (1815 - 1894)

Du fragst mich, Mädchen, was flüsternd...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Du fragst mich, Mädchen, was flüsternd der West
Vertraue den Blüthenglocken?
Warum von Zweige zu Zweig im Geäst
Die zwitschernden Vögel [sich]1 locken?
 
Warum an Knospe die Knospe sich schmiegt,
Und Wellen mit Wellen zerfließen,
Und dem Mondstrahl, der auf den Kelchen sich wiegt,
Die Violen der Nacht sich erschließen?
 
O thörichtes Fragen! Wem Wissen frommt,
Nicht kann ihm die Antwort fehlen;
Drum warte, mein Kind, bis die Liebe kommt,
Die wird dir Alles erzählen!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Strauss 

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Confirmed with Gesammelte Werke des Grafen Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Erster Band, Stuttgart: Velag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1883, page 386

1 omitted by Strauss

Text Authorship:

  • by Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (1815 - 1894), "Das Geheimniß" [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 Reinhold Becker (1842 - 1924), "Das Geheimniss", op. 11 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Ries [sung text not yet checked]
  • by R. Fried , "Das Geheimniss", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Leonard Johann Heinrich) Albert Fuchs (1858 - 1910), "Das Geheimniss", op. 22 (Drei Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme und Pianofortebleitung) no. 2, published 1887 [ medium voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Neugebauer , "Das Geheimniss", op. 50 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hientzsch [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max Spicker (1858 - 1912), "Das Geheimniss", op. 21 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fr. Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Das Geheimnis", op. 17 (Sechs Lieder von Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack) no. 3 (1885-7), published 1888 [ high voice and piano ], Hamburg, Rahter [sung text checked 2 times]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le secret", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Il segreto", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Alberto Pedrotti , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 76

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