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Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden, gehn über Berg und Thal: Die Erlen und die Weiden, die weinen allzumal. Sie sahn so oft uns wandern zusammen an Baches Rand, Das eine ohn' den andern geht über ihren Verstand. Die Erlen und die Weiden vor Schmerz in Thränen stehn, -- Nun denket, wie's uns beiden erst muß zu Herzen gehn!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 76.
Text Authorship:
- by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 36 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden", c1920-23 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1842 - 1899), "Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden", op. 6a no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Schlichte Weisen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Berlin, Schlesinger ; note: we've added an 'a' to the opus because this opus was used by another publisher a few years later [sung text not yet checked]
- by Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden", op. 32 (Zwei Männerchöre oder Soloquartette) no. 1, published 1906-1913 [ TTBB quartet or men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Ach Lieb' ich muß nun scheiden", op. 17 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5 (1885-91), published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden", op. 21 no. 3 (1887-1888), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Schlichte Weisen, no. 3, München, Aibl [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 58
Alas, my love, I must now part from you, and go beyond the mountain and valley; the alders and the willows are weeping all the while. They watched us wander so often together by the edge of the brook; the sight of one of us without the other will surpass their understanding. O alders and willows, standing weeping with pain, just think now how we must feel in our hearts!
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Translation of title "Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden" = "Alas, my love, I must now part from you"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 36
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 70