from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Die beiden Raben
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Ich wandelt einsam auf grünen Pfad, zwei Raben hört ich, die hielten Rat
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Based on:

  • a text in English from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "The twa corbies", published by Sir Walter Scott, as written down, from tradition, by a lady, from The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. 3, James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, first published 1803

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by A. Aleksandrova ; composed by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799 - 1851) [an adaptation] ; composed by Carl Banck.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) , no title, written 1828, first published 1828 ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd, Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky, Evgeny Ivanovich Bukke, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko , Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Ivan Alexandrovich Pomazansky, Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, V. Ryabov, Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov, Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky.
  • Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Ivan Yakovych Franko (1856 - 1916) , "Шотландська пісня" ; composed by Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko .

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