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Wenn alles eben käme, wie du gewollt es hast, und Gott dir gar nichts nähme und gäb dir keine Last, wie wär's [da]1 um dein Sterben, du Menschenkind bestellt? Du müsstest [gar]2 verderben, so lieb wär dir die Welt! Nun fällt, eins nach dem andern, manch süßes Band dir ab, und heiter kannst du wandern gen Himmel durch das Grab, dein Zagen ist gebrochen, und deine Seele hofft; dies ward schon oft gesprochen, doch spricht man's nie zu oft.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Karl Kinzel (Hrsg.), Gedichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Halle a. S., 1894.
1 Knecht: "dann"2 Pepping: "fast"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843), "Trost" [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 Franz Magnus Böhme (1827 - 1898), "Trost" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Trost", op. 98 (4 Männerchöre) no. 3 (1933) [ men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fr. Kattiofsky , "Trost" [ SATB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752 - 1817), "Trost" [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Drei Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte oder der Guitarre, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eduard Krüger (1807 - 1885), "Trost" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Kunz , "Trost" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Leipold (b. 1879), "Singet dem Herrn" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Lucke , "Trost" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Pepping (1901 - 1981), "Trost", 1946, published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Haus- und Trostbuch, no. 40 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Platz , "Trost", from Sechs Gesänge, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Raphael , "Geistliches Lied" [ voice and piano or organ or harmonium ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Reichardt (1797 - 1884), "Trost", op. 33 (3 ernste Gesänge für S., A., T. und B. ) no. 2, published 1871 [ SATB chorus ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Rochlich (1823 - 1880), "Wenn Alles eben käme", op. 36 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Siegismund & Volkening [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Rohde (b. 1856), "Trost", op. 13 no. 2a [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schaab (1817 - 1887), "Wenn Alles eben käme", op. 76 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1884 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Scheide , "Totensonntag" [ mixed chorus ], from Geistliche Lieder und Motetten für gemischten Chor, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelmine Schwertzell von Willingshausen (1752 - 1828), "Trost", published [1823] [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder von Goethe, Fouqué, Hebel, Tieck und Uhland für eine, zwei und drei Singstimmen mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 10, Leipzig: Bei H. A. Probst [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Trost", op. 24 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Bernhard Vogel (1847 - 1898), "Trost", op. 35, Heft 1 no. 2, published 1884 [ mixed chorus ], from Tröstungen. Vier ernste Gesänge für gemischten Chor nach Sprüchen von de la Motte-Fouqué, no. 2, Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Moritz Vogel (1846 - 1922), "Trost", op. 78 no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Friedrich) Oskar Wermann (1840 - 1906), "Trost", op. 98 (Zehn Chorgesänge für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass), Heft 3 no. 8, published 1895 [ satb chorus ], Dresden: A. Köhler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Winter , "Trost" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2025
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2005-12-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 81
If everything were to happen just as you wished it to happen, and God took nothing from you and gave you no burden, what would your death be like, child of man? You would have to deteriorate, so dear the world would be to you! Now, one after another, many of your sweet bonds fall away, and you can walk peacefully through the grave toward heaven, your fear broken and your soul full of hope; this has often been said but one can never say it too often.
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Translation of title "Trost" = "Consolation"Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2025 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843), "Trost"
This text was added to the website: 2025-02-25
Line count: 16
Word count: 88