Flammenauge, dunkles Haar (Daumer, set by Eduard Behm, Johannes Brahms) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Translation by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Flammenauge, dunkles Haar

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Russian (Русский)

Available translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FIN FRE ITA

Flammenauge, dunkles Haar,
Knabe wonnig und verwogen,
Kummer ist durch dich hinein
in mein armes Herz gezogen!

Kann in Eis der Sonne Brand,
sich in Nacht der Tag verkehren?
Kann die heisse Menschenbrust
atmen ohne Glutbegehren?

Ist die Flur so voller Licht,
daß die Blum' im Dunkel stehe?
Ist die Welt so voller Lust,
daß das Herz in Qual vergehe?

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Authorship

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Russian (Русский) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]

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

by Eduard Behm (1862 - 1946), "Russisch", op. 9 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1892 [voice and piano], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [ sung text not verified ]
by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Flammenauge, dunkles Haar", op. 65 no. 14 (1875), published 1875 [vocal quartet and piano four-hands or instrumental ensemble], from Neue Liebeslieder, no. 14, Berlin, Simrock [ sung text verified 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Mimi Ezust

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