by Emily Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913)
Aspens
Language: German (Deutsch)
A sweet high treble threads its silvery song, Voice of the restless aspen, fine and thin It trills its pure soprano, light and long — Like the vibretto of a mandolin.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913), appears in Flint and Feather, in Autumn's Orchestra, no. 9 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ingrid Stölzel (b. 1971), "Aspens", 2018, copyright © 2018 [ soprano, violin and piano ], from To One Beyond Seas, no. 9, Composers Edition
Publisher: Composers Edition [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 32