Evening Song | Slowly my child gets tired

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Abendlied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG ENG FIN FRE

Langsam wird mein Kindchen müde, 
  leise [kommt herbei]¹ die Nacht; 
  stille Wolken gehn am Himmel, 
  und der Mond ist aufgewacht. 

Schaut mit seinen klaren Blicken 
  in des Kindes Kämmerlein, 
  streichelt es mit sanften Händen 
  in den schönsten Traum hinein.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Reger

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Confirmed with Saat und Ernte. Die deutsche Lyrik unserer Tage in Selbstauswahlen der Dichter und Dichterinnen, Mit kurzen Eigenbiographien und Angabe ihrer Werke herausgegeben von Albert Sergel, Berlin und Leipzig: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., [1924], page 259.

Also confirmed with Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte von Albert Sergel, 11.-15. Tausend, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien & Bern: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1921, page 37.

¹ Reger: "kommt"

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Abendlied", appears in Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte [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 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Abendlied", 1909-10, from Kinderlieder, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Abendlied", op. 76 no. 5 (1932-1933?) [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ludwig Neubeck (1882 - 1933), "Abendlied", op. 17 no. 9, published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Ringelreihen. Ein Kinderlieder-Zyklus nach Ged. von A. Sergel, no. 9, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Abendlied", op. 76 (Schlichte Weisen) no. 39 (1907) [ voice and piano ], Band 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Abendlied", op. 15 no. 4, published 1907/8 [ voice and piano ], from Ringelreihen: 21 Kinderlieder von Albert Sergel, no. 4, München: Wunderhornverlag [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Abendlied", op. 44 no. 10 (1920) [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Kinderlieder nach Gedichten von Albert Sergel, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 40

Evening Song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Slowly my child gets tired,
softly in comes night.
Quiet clouds cross the sky
and the moon has woken up.

The moon looks directly
into the child's little room,
strokes him with a soft hand
and leads him into the loveliest of dreams.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Abendlied", appears in Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte
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This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 43