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by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)

Das Kind in der Wiege
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Glücklicher [Säugling]1!
Dir ist ein unendlicher Raum noch die Wiege. 
Werde Mann, und dir wird eng die unendliche Welt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Reichardt 

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Confirmed with F. v. Schillers sämmtliche Werke, sechster Band, no editor is named, Carlsruhe: im Büreau der deutschen Klassiker, 1823. Appears in Gedichte von Friedrich v. Schiller, zweiter Theil, vollständige mit Nachtragen vermehrte Ausgabe, in Sprüche, page 92.

1 Reichardt: "Jüngling"

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), "Das Kind in der Wiege", written 1795, appears in Sprüche [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 Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Das Kind in der Wiege", published 1798 [ voice and piano or harpsichord ], from Wiegenlieder für gute deutsche Mütter, no. 12, Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer der Jüngern [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2019-07-27
Line count: 3
Word count: 20

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