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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation © by Emily Ezust
Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt Finsterniß so dumpf und dicht, Seit mir nicht mehr leuchtend funkelt, Liebste, deiner Augen Licht. [Mir]1 erloschen ist der süßen Liebessterne goldne Pracht, Abgrund gähnt zu meinen Füßen. Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 166.
1 Strauss: "Wie"Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63 [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 Alexander Albrecht (1885 - 1958), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Karl Friedrich) Gustav Brah-Müller (1839 - 1878), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Blätter für Hausmusik, Heft 6, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Musikalische Bilder, Heft I, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 (Lieder), Heft 2 (Cypressen) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by J. Dürck , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", from Sechs Lieder und Gesänge, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg (1878 - 1962), "Schmerzensnacht", op. 12 (Sechs Gedichte) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 132 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 4 (1947) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Wo ich bin", op. 69 no. 8 (1909) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Winterzyklus, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Genss (1856 - 1940), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 13 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Hentze [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", A. 18 (1903-11?) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Moritz Hauptmann (1792 - 1868), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 19 (Zwölf Gesänge) no. 3, published 1848 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by O. Heller , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 8 (Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Horwitz , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 no. 7, from Aus Heine's lyrischem Intermezzo : Liederzyklus, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (1894 - 1969), "Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht", op. 3 (Gedichte von Heine) no. 1, published 19--? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Kuczynski (1846 - 1897), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 18--?, from Vierzehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht", op. 27 no. 2 (1885), published <<1890 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs ernste Lieder von Heinrich Heine und Paul Heyse, no. 2, Copenhagen, Hofmusikhandelens Forlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ladislao (László) de Makray , "Wo ich bin" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt Finsterniß", op. 339 (Acht Lieder nach Heinrich Heine) no. 3 (2022) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by František Pivoda (1824 - 1898), "Wo ich steh, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 58 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Scott Root , "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", c1999, from Herzen-Tränen : three art songs on texts by Heinrich Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jakob Rosenhain (1813 - 1894), "Lied", op. 21 (Sechs Lieder ) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Apolinary Scheluta (1884 - 1966), "Die Nacht", op. 12 (Buch der Lieder : von Heinrich Heine) no. 6, published 1909? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leander Schlegel (1844 - 1913), "Wo ich bin", op. 22 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Sebald (1869 - 1934), "Nacht", from Fünf Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Der Einsame", op. 51 (Zwei Gesänge) no. 2 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine's Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Visser (b. 1939), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", published 1930 [ high voice and piano ], from Lieder auf Gedichte von Heinrich Heine, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", 1878 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Wulffius (1867 - 1920), "Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Pierre-René Hirsch (1870 - 1891) [an adaptation] and by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955) [an adaptation] ; composed by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El solitari", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2008
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 63, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Là dove sono il buio mi circonda", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 39
Where I am, all around me
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Where I am, all around me there is darkness, gloomy and dense, because the light of your eyes, dearest, no longer sparkles before me. Extinct for me is the golden splendour of those sweet stars of love. An abyss gapes at my feet. Receive me, ancient night.
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Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63
This text was added to the website: 2008-04-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 47