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by Ludwig Bechstein (1801 - 1860)

Unter den rothen Blumen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Unter den rothen Blumen,
Schlummere, [mein]1 Vögelein!
Unter den rothen Blumen,
[Grab' ich dich traurig]2 ein.

Hast [mir]3 so schön gesungen,
[Hab']4 dich so sehr geliebt!
Kehlchen hat ausgeklungen,
[O wie mich das]5 betrübt!

[Als du noch sangst, hatte]6 Rosen
[Blühend der Mai]7 geweckt.
[Aber nun]8 mit Zeitlosen
[Hab' ich]9 dich zugedeckt!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Schumann •   R. Schumann 

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Confirmed with Neue Naturgeschichte der Stubenvögel. Ein Lehrgedicht von Bechstein dem Jüngern , Hannover: In der Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1846, page 290.

1 G. Schumann, R. Schumann: "lieb"
2 G. Schumann, R. Schumann: "Graben wir traurig dich"
3 G. Schumann, R. Schumann: "uns"
4 G. Schumann, R. Schumann: "haben"
5 G. Schumann: "Ach, wie mir [sic] das"; R. Schumann: "Ach! wie uns das so sehr"
6 G. Schumann: "Hattest noch uns're"; R. Schumann: "Als du noch sangest, hatte"
7 G. Schumann: "Mit deinem Lied"; R. Schumann: "Blühender Mai"
8 G. Schumann: "Haben nun"; R. Schumann: "Aber heute"
9 G. Schumann: "Vögelein"; R. Schumann: "Haben wir"

Text Authorship:

  • by Ludwig Bechstein (1801 - 1860), "Rothkehlchens Begräbniß", appears in Neue Naturgeschichte der Stubenvögel. Ein Lehrgedicht von Bechstein dem Jüngern, in Naturgeschichte der einzelnen Arten der Stubenvögel, in 6. Singvögel [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 Johanna von Hahn , "Vögleins Begräbniss", published 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Kinderlieder mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Riga, Seezen [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Vögeleins Begräbnis", op. 75 (Zehn Kinderlieder) no. 4 (1860) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Frédéric Louis Ritter (1826 - 1891), "Vögeleins Begräbniss", op. 3, Heft 1 no. 5, published 1867 [ voice and piano ], from Kinder-Lieder, no. 5, Leipzig, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georg Schumann (1866 - 1952), "Vögleins Begräbniss", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], in the collection Im Volkston: moderne Volkslieder komponiert für Die Woche, Druck und Verlag von August Scherl G.m.b.H. Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Nänie", op. 114 (Drei Lieder für drei Frauenstimmen und Klavier) no. 1 (1849), published 1853 [ vocal trio for female voices with piano ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (1811 - 1891), "Vögleins Begräbniss", op. 204 no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Klänge aus der Kinderwelt, Heft XIV, no. 3, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Klaaglied", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A little funeral song", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant funèbre", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2007-02-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

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