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Muß es eine Trennung geben, Die das treue Herz zerbricht? Nein, dies nenne ich nicht leben, Sterben ist so bitter nicht. Hör' ich eines Schäfers Flöte, Härme ich mich inniglich, Seh' ich in die Abendröte, Denk' ich brünstiglich an dich. Gibt es denn kein wahres Lieben? Muß denn Schmerz und [Trauer]1 sein? Wär' ich ungeliebt geblieben, Hätt' ich doch noch Hoffnungsschein. Aber so muß ich nun klagen: Wo ist Hoffnung, als das Grab? Fern muß ich mein Elend tragen, Heimlich bricht das Herz mir ab.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Brahms: "Trennung"
Authorship
- by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 13, chapter heading: "Peter unter den Heiden" [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Muß es eine Trennung geben", op. 33 no. 12 (1861-65), published 1865 [voice and piano], from Die schöne Magelone. Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, no. 12, Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [text verified 1 time]
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Must there be a parting", copyright ©
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Deve quindi esserci una separazione", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Waartoe kan een scheiding dienen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- TUR Turkish (Türkçe) (Gül Sabar) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Must there be a parting That will cause true hearts to break? No, that I do not call living: Dying is not so bitter. When I hear a shepherd's flute, Inside I grieve; When I gaze at a sunset, I think passionately of you. Is there then no true love? Must there be pain and parting? If I'd remained unloved I would then have at least a glimmer of hope. But so I must now lament: Where is Hope, but in the grave? Far away must I bear my misery, In secrecy, my heart breaks.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 13, chapter heading: "Peter unter den Heiden"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 95