by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Flickans klagan
Language: Swedish (Svenska)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Ekskogen susar vid hafvets rand en flicka sitter på grönklädd strand
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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Emilie Holmberg (1821 - 1854), "Flickans klagan", published 1841 [ voice and piano ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779 - 1850) [an adaptation] ; composed by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse.
  • Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
  • Also set in English, a translation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) , "Thekla's Song" [an adaptation] ; composed by Charles Wood.
  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Robert de Bonnières (1850 - 1905) , "Schiller : La plainte de la jeune fille" ; composed by Vincent d'Indy.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) , "Тоска по милом", written 1807 [an adaptation] ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pleshcheyev, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky, Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya.

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