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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Es geht [ein dunkle Wolk herein]1,
Mich dünkt, es wird ein Regen sein, 
Ein Regen aus den Wolken,
Wohl in das grüne Gras. 

Und [kommst]2 du, liebe Sonn, nit bald,
So weset alls im [grünen]3 Wald, 
Und all die müden Blumen,
Die [haben müden]4 Tod.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   H. Distler •   H. Eisler 

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1 Beck: "ein dunkle Wolke ein"; Herzogenberg: "ein dunkle Wolken 'rein"; further changes may exist not noted above; Eisler: "eine dunkle Wolk' herein"
2 Distler: "scheinst"
3 Eisler: "dunklen"
4 Eisler: "leiden bittren"

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , the first stanza first transcribed by Johannes Werlin aus dem Kloster Seeon, first published 1646 [author's text not yet checked 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 Conrad Beck (1901 - 1989), "Es geht ein dunkle Wolke ein", copyright © 1930 [ chorus ], from Ernste Lieder und Gesänge, no. 1, Mainz : B. Schott's Söhne [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Es geht ein dunkle Wolk" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Es geht eine dunkle Wolk' herein" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Es geht ein' dunkle Wolken 'rein", op. 35 (Zwölf deutsche Volkslieder aus dem 15., 16. und 17. Jahrh. für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor gesetzt) no. 3, published 1882 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Fritzsch [sung text not yet checked]

Set in a modified version by Felix Wolfes.

    • Go to the text. [ view differences ]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 50

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