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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Zwölfter Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1828, pages 177-178; with Faust. Eine Tragödie von Goethe, Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1808, pages 223-225; and with Faust. Ein Fragment. in Goethe's Schriften. Siebenter Band. Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790, pages 133-135. Above the poem it is indicated "Gretchens Stube. Gretchen am Spinnrade allein." Note: Goethe did not split the final eight lines into two stanzas prior to 1828.

Authorship:

• by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I), first published 1790 [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 Max Joseph Beer (1851 - 1908), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", op. 2, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Wien u. Tr., Buchholz & D. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Aloys Theodor Commer (1813 - 1887), "Aus Faust", op. 19 (Vier Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte) no. 3, published 1841 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Meine Ruh ist hin", op. 11 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5, published 1835 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Fritze (1842 - 1881), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", op. 17 no. 2, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge aus Goethe's 'Faust', no. 2, Breslau, Hientzsch [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Meine Ruh ist hin", op. 65, published 1863 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann von Haszlinger , "Lied Gretchens", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1806 - 1872), "Meine Ruh ist hin! aus der Tragödie: Faust von Göthe", published 1838 [ voice and piano ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Jansen [not F. G. Jansen] , "Gretchen am Spinnrade aus Göthe's Faust", published 1866 [ bass and piano ], Berlin, Mendel  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Christoph Kienlen (1783 - 1829), "Lied von Gretchen", published 1819? [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernhard (Joseph) Klein (1793 - 1832), "Meine Ruh' ist hin", published c1820 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "Gretchens Klage", 1820 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge aus Goethe's Faust, no. 16, an edition from 1836 is mentioned by Hofmeister, published Wien, Trentsensky [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Fredric Joseph Kroll (b. 1945), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", 1965 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Fredric Joseph Kroll (b. 1945), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", 1965-6, first performed 1982 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus der Einsamkeit, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Justus Amadeus Lecerf (1789 - 1868), "Gretchen am Spinnrad", published 1835? [ voice and piano ], from Neun Gesänge zu Goethe's Faust, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Gretchen am Spinnrad", op. 14, Heft 1 (Gesänge Gretchens) no. 2, published 1833 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge und Lieder aus der Tragödie Faust von Goethe, no. 2, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Meine Ruh ist hin", op. 13 (Zwei Gesänge) no. 1 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Meine Ruh ist hin", op. 9, Heft 3 no. 2 (1822) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl Adolf Lorenz, Dr. (1837 - 1923), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", op. 6, published 1865 [ soprano and piano ], Berlin, Simmel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Theodor Moritz (1772 - 1834), "Margarete", op. 5 (Dreizehn Lieder und Gesaenge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 5 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Fürst (1775 - 1833), "Gretchen", published 1835, from Compositionen zu Göthe's Faust, no. 18, Berlin: Zum ausschliesslichen Debit in Commission bei T. Trautwein, Buch-und Musikhandlung [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Gretchen am Spinnrade", op. 2, D 118 (1814), published 1821, first performed 1823, Cappi und Diabelli [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl, Freiherr von Seckendorff (flourished c1819), "Gretchens Klage", published [1819] [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte in Musik gesetzt und seiner Schwester gewidmet von Carl von Seckendorff, no. 12, Leipzig: Bey Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis [Ludwig] Spohr (1784 - 1859), "Gretchen", op. 25 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 3 (1809) [sung text checked 2 times]
• by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), "Meine Ruh ist hin (Gretchen am Spinnrade)", op. 5 no. 6, WWV 15 no. 6 (1831-2), from Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758 - 1832), "Margarethe" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by C. F. Zietzschmann , "Meine Ruh' ist hin ", op. 32 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Barth [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , copyright © ; composed by Ralph Shapey.
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• Also set in French (Français), adapted by Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) [an adaptation] and by Almire Gandonnière (b. 1814) [an adaptation] ; composed by Hector Berlioz.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Luigi Balestra (1808 - 1863) ; composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Eduard Ivanovich Guber (1814 - 1847) ; composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CZE Czech (Čeština) (Otokar Fischer) , "Můj klid ten tam"
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Greetje aan het spinnewiel", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Lynn Thompson) , "My peace is gone", copyright © 1997, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Fredric Kroll) , "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Walter A. Aue) , "My peace is gone", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Gérard Labrunie) , appears in Le Faust de Goethe [an adaptation]
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Το Ριτάκι στο ροδάνι", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "La mia pace è perduta", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Gretchen ved rokken", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "Margarita en la Rueca"

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-13
Line count: 40
Word count: 133