Aan de nachtegaal | Hij ligt te slapen aan mijn boezem

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by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Er liegt und schläft an meinem Herzen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA TUR

Er liegt und schläft an meinem Herzen,
Mein guter [Schutzgeist]¹ sang ihn ein;
Und ich kann frölich seyn und scherzen,
Kann jeder Blum' und jedes Blatts mich freun.
[Nachtigall,]² Nachtigall, ach!
Sing mir den Amor nicht wach!

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• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with ASMUS omnia sua SECUM portans, oder Sämmtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Bothen, I. und II. Theil. Beym Verfasser, und in Commißion bey Fr. Perthes in Hamburg. [1774], page 56; and with Musenalmanach MDCCLXXII. Göttingen bey J.C.Dieterich, page 21.

First published in Der Wandsbecker Bothe. Ao. 1771. No. 70. Mittwochs, den 1sten May.

¹ Claudius (Wandsbecker Bote; Musenalmanach): "Engel"
² Schubert: "Nachtigall, ach!"

Text Authorship:

by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815), "An die Nachtigall", first published 1771 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "An die Nachtigall", 2013 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801 - 1878), "Der schlummernde Amor", c1868 [ voice and piano ], from Sånger och Visor vid Pianoforte. 5:te delen, no. 124 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Glück" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "An die Nachtigall", op. 98 (Drei Lieder) no. 1, D 497 (1816), published 1829 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Aan de nachtegaal

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Hij ligt te slapen aan mijn boezem
Door 't zingen van mijn goede geest.
Nu kan ik vrolijk zijn en roezen,
Is elke bloem en ieder blad een feest.
Nachtegaal, toe! Nachtegaal, toe!
Stil nu, want Amor is moe!

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This text was added to the website: 2006-03-27
Line count: 6
Word count: 39