by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899)
Als de ziele luistert
Language: Dutch (Nederlands)
Als de ziele luistert spreekt [het al]1 een tal dat leeft, 't lijzigste gefluister ook een taal en teeken heeft: blâren [van]2 de boomen kouten met [malkaar]3 gezwind, baren in de stroomen klappen [luide]4 en welgezind, wind en [wee]5 en wolken, [wegelen van Gods heiligen]6 voet, talen en vertolken 't diep gedoken Woord zoo zoet.... als de ziele luistert!
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View original text (without footnotes)Spelling changes used by De Vocht: teeken -> teken ; blâren van de boomen -> blaren van de bomen ; stroomen -> stromen ; heiligen -> heilige ; zoo -> zo
Spelling changes used by Thys : teeken -> teken ; blâren -> blaren ; boomen -> bomen ; stroomen -> stromen; luide -> luid; zoo -> zo
Spelling changes used by Van Rennes: ook een taal -> ook en taal; heiligen -> heilgen
Spelling changes used by Wierts: baren -> bâren; heiligen -> heil'gen
1 Van Rennes: " 't al"
2 Mortelmans: "in"
3 Thys: "elkaar"
4 Mortelmans: "luid"
5 Mortelmans: "weer"
6 Mortelmans: "weeg'len van Gods heilgen"
Text Authorship:
- by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, written 1860 [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), "Als de ziele luistert", 1991 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Kleengedichtjes, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jozef Cuypers , "Als de ziele luistert", 1959 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel De Backer (1924 - 2006), "Als de ziele luistert" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis De Haas , "Als de ziele luistert " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Albert Delvaux (1913 - 2007), "Als de ziele luistert", 1949 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "Als de ziele luistert" [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "Als de ziele luistert", 1959 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Als de ziele luistert", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michel Julien , "Als de ziele luistert", 1926 [ four-part mixed chorus and organ or harmonium ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johan F. Keja (d. 1960), "Als de ziele luistert" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Meulemans (1884 - 1966), "Als de ziele luistert", 1964 [ reciter and string orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868 - 1952), "Als de ziele luistert", 1913 [ voice and piano ], also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Ryelandt (1870 - 1965), "Als de Ziele luistert", op. 83 [ women's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Thys , "Als de ziele luistert" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucien Van Branteghem , "Als de ziele luistert", 1970 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Gezelletriptiek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Van Landeghem (b. 1954), "Als de ziele luistert", 1999 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Omer Van Puyvelde (1912 - 1980), "Als de ziele luistert", 1956 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Catharina Van Rennes (1858 - 1940), "Als de ziele luistert ", op. 52 no. 11 (1904), published 19--? [ voice and piano ], from Kleengedichtjes, no. 11, Utrecht : Jac. van Rennes [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Renaat Veremans (1894 - 1969), "Als de ziele luistert", 1962 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Vijf koren op gedichten van Guido Gezelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joop Voorn (1932 - 2021), "Als de ziele luistert", 1991 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Als de ziele luistert", 1939, rev. 1979 [ voice and piano ], from Acht liederen, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Als de ziele luistert" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johannes Petrus Jodocus Wierts (1866 - 1944), "Als de ziele luistert ..." [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Mary Ellis Opdycke ; composed by Lodewijk Mortelmans.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Vic Nees.
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-20
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Word count: 59