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Wär's dunkel, ich läg' im [Wald]1, Im Walde rauscht's so sacht, Mit ihrem Sternenmantel [Bedecket]2 mich da die Nacht, Da kommen die Bächlein gegangen, Ob ich schon schlafen thu'? Ich [schlaf']3 nicht, ich [hör']4 noch [lange]5 Den Nachtigallen zu, Wenn die Wipfel über mir [schwanken]6, [Es klinget]7 die ganze Nacht, Das sind im Herzen die Gedanken, Die singen, wenn niemand wacht.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag, 1892, page 228.
1 Gumbert, Herzogenberg, Pfitzner, Schoeck: "Walde"2 Gumbert, Pfitzner, Schoeck: "Bedeckt"
3 Sommer: "schlafe"
4 Herzogenberg: "höre"
5 Pfitzner: "lang"
6 Gumbert: "rauschen"
7 Herzogenberg: "Es klingt"; Pfitzner: "Das klingt"
Authorship:
- by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Die Einsame, no. 3 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Wilhelm Freudenberg (1838 - 1928), "Die Einsame", op. 29 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte.) no. 2, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Nachts im Walde", op. 70 no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Die Einsame", op. 22 no. 1, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Notturnos, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich Gustav Jansen (1831 - 1910), "Die Einsame", op. 25 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1860 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Die Einsame", op. 9 no. 2 (1894-95), published 1898, first performed 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 2, Leipzig, Max Brockhaus [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Rausch (1880 - 1951), "Die Einsame" [ voice and piano ], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die Einsame", op. 10 no. 2 (1907) [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Eichendorff, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Die Einsame II", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 7 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Waldesstimmung", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , "The lonely girl", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "S'il faisait noir, je serais allongée dans la forêt", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Jakob Kellner , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 62
If it were dark, I would lie in the forest, In the forest there is such a gentle soughing, With its starlit mantle Night covers me there, The brooklets come along, asking If I am already asleep? I am not sleeping, for a long time yet I listen to the nightingales, When the treetops [sway]1 above me, There is a sound the whole night long, Those are the thoughts in my heart, They sing when no one is awake.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Die Einsame" = "The solitary one"
"Die Einsame II" = "The solitary one II"
"Nachts im Walde" = "At night in the forest"
"Waldesstimmung" = "Forest ambiance"
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2022 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Die Einsame, no. 3
This text was added to the website: 2022-04-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 80