Noche y ensueños | Sagrada noche, lenta vas cayendo

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by Matthäus Kasimir von Collin (1779 - 1824)

Translation © by Martin Zubiria

Heil'ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CHI DUT ENG FRE IRI ITA NOR SPA SPA

Heil'ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder;
Nieder wallen auch die Träume,
Wie dein [Licht]¹ durch [diese Bäume]²,
[Lieblich durch der Menschen]³ Brust;
Die belauschen sie mit Lust,
Rufen, wenn der Tag erwacht:
Kehre wieder [heil'ge]⁴ Nacht,
Holde Träume kehret wieder.

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• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Matthäus Edlen von Collin's nachgelassene Gedichte, ausgewählt und mit einem biographischen Vorworte begleitet von Joseph von Hammer. Zweytes Bändchen. Wien. Gedruckt und im Verlage bey Carl Gerold. 1827, page 149.

Note: Schubert received Collin's poem in handwritten form. It was later published (posthumously) in a slightly different version, with the title Nachtfeyer, together with another version of the same poem, titled Nacht und Träume, which has also been incorporated in Collin's dramatic fragment Fortunats Abfahrt von Cypern; see below.

¹ Schubert: "Mondlicht"
² Schubert: "die Räume"
³ Schubert: "Durch der Menschen stille"
⁴ Schubert: "holde"

Text Authorship:

by Matthäus Kasimir von Collin (1779 - 1824), "Nachtfeyer" [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 Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Nacht und Träume", op. 8 (Elf Lieder) no. 6 (1995-6) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Nacht und Träume", op. 42 (Fünf Gesänge für gemischte Chor ) no. 5, published 1874 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
by Gunnar de Frumerie (1908 - 1987), "Nacht und Träume", op. 10 no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Nacht und Träume", op. 43 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, D 827 (1822?), published 1825 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Word count: 39

Noche y ensueños

Language: Spanish (Español) after the German (Deutsch)

Sagrada noche, lenta vas cayendo;
bajan también, bullendo, los ensueños,
tal tu claror de luna por los aires,
de los hombres por el callado pecho.

Anhelan con deleite su llegada.
Cuando despierta el nuevo día exclaman:
¡Sagrada noche, de volver no dejes!
¡No dejéis de volver, dulces ensueños.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2007 by Martin Zubiria, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Matthäus Kasimir von Collin (1779 - 1824), "Nachtfeyer"
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This text was added to the website: 2007-08-07
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Word count: 48

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