by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843)
Schweigen und entsagen lernen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG
Schweigen und entsagen lernen, Das ist unser Erdenlauf; Tönend blüh'n in sel'gen Fernen Einst die stummen Saaten auf.
Confirmed with Gedichte von Fridr. Baron de la Motte-Fouqué, Zweyter Theil, Neueste Auflage, Wien: Bey B. Ph. Bauer, 1818, page 57
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843), appears in Gedichte, in Sprüche, no. 1 [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 Adolf Bernhard Vogel (1847 - 1898), "Schweigen und entsagen lernen", op. 35, Heft 1 no. 1, published 1884 [ mixed chorus ], from Tröstungen. Vier ernste Gesänge für gemischten Chor nach Sprüchen von de la Motte-Fouqué, no. 1, Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "To learn to fall silent and to abjure", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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