In [lindem]1 Schlaf schon lag ich hingestreckt,
Da hat mich jäh dein Geigenspiel erweckt.
Doch, wo das Menschenherz mir so begegnet,
Nacht oder Tag, die Stunde sei gesegnet!
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
• R. Schüller View text without footnotes
Confirmed with Theodor Storm's gesammelte Schriften, Erste Gesammtausgabe, Zweite Auflage, Erster Band, Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von George Westermann, 1877, page 141.
1 Schüller: "linden" [sic]
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Rudolf Schüller , "Ein Ständchen" [ voice and piano ], first published in Der Kunstwart: Halbmonatschau über Dichtung, Theater, Kunst, bildende und angewandte Künste, ed. by Ferdinand Avenarius, Vol XX, 1, Oktober 1906 bis März 1907 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A serenade", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Sharon Krebs
[Senior Associate Editor]This text was added to the website: 2016-12-11
Line count: 4
Word count: 29
I was already stretched out in gentle sleep,
When I was abruptly awakened by your violin-playing.
Yet where I thus encounter a human heart,
Be it by night or day, may that hour be blessed!
