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by Ephraim Moses Kuh (1731 - 1790)

Venus, wenn du mich willst rühren
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Venus, wenn du [mich willst]1 rühren,
o, so komm in der Gestalt von Elmiren!
dann entzündest du mich bald.
Aber hast du von Elmiren weiter nichts,
als die Gestalt, mich zu rühren:
dann bleibt doch mein Herze kalt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Benda 

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Confirmed with Hinterlassene Gedichte von Ephraim Moses Kuh, erstes Bändchen, ed. by D. Kausch, Zürich: Orell, Gessner, Füssli, und Comp., 1792, page 216.

1 Benda: "willst mich"

Text Authorship:

  • by Ephraim Moses Kuh (1731 - 1790), "An die Venus" [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 Georg (Jiři Antonín) Benda (1722 - 1795), "Venus, wenn du willst mich rühren", published 1780-7, from Sammlung vermischter Clavier- und Singstücke [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

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