Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager, Ich schlafe nicht, Meine gefalteten [Hände]1 ruhen In seinem Licht. Meine Seele ist still, sie kehrte Von Gott zurück, Und mein Herz hat nur einen Gedanken: Dich und [dein]2 Glück.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gesammelte Dichtungen von Gustav Falke, Erster Band: Herddämmerglück, Hamburg und Berlin, Alfred Janssen, 1912, pages 119-120.
1 Voigt-Schweikert: "Hände sie"2 Webern: "mein"
Text Authorship:
- by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Fromm", appears in Mit dem Leben. Neue Gedichte, in Eine Liebe [author's text checked 1 time 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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Fromm", 1919 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Fromm", 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 40 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst G. Elsaesser , "Köln, Tischer & Jagenberg.", 1936 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gesänge, no. 2, Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Fromm", op. 71 (6 Lieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier) no. 6 (1930) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Fromm", op. 12 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Fromm" [ voice and piano ], from Three / Four songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (1882 - 1942), as Hans Lio, "Fromm", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2, Wien, Doblinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "Fromm", op. 46 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Fromm", op. 62 (Sechzehn Gesänge) no. 11 (1901) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 2 times]
- by August Reuss (1871 - 1935), "Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margarete Schweikert (1887 - 1957), "Fromm", op. 5 (Fünf Gedichte von Gustav Falke) no. 2 (1909), published 1913 [ voice and piano ], München, Wunderhorn-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Schwers (1874 - 1939), "Fromm", op. 23 (Fünf Gesänge für eine mittlere Singstimme und Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig: F.E.C. Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Fromm", op. 40 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 (1899-1901), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Fr. Bartels [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vilma von Webenau (1875 - 1953), "Fromm" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Fromm", 1899-1903, from Drei Gedichte für Gesang und Klavier, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Jethro Rithell) , "Devout", first published 1909
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Pieux", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Jeroen Scholten , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 36
The moon illumines my pillow, I do not sleep, My hands in the kiss of the moonbeams Folded I keep. My soul, from God returnèd Lies now at rest And my heart has one thought only: To make thee blest.
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Confirmed with Contemporary German Poetry. Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell, The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Ltd., 1909, page 49.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Jethro Rithell (1878 - 1962), "Devout", first published 1909 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Fromm", appears in Mit dem Leben. Neue Gedichte, in Eine Liebe
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2024-06-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 40