Je me promène et pleure dans la forêt

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Im Walde wandl' ich und weine

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): FRE

Im Walde wandl' ich und weine,
die Drossel sitzt in der Höh;
sie springt und singt gar feine:
Warum ist dir so weh?

"Die Schwalben, deine Schwestern,
die könnens dir sagen, mein Kind;
sie wohnten in klugen Nestern,
wo Liebchens Fenster sind."

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Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 4 [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 Károly Aggházy (1855 - 1918), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 31 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kiesler [sung text not yet checked]
by Leonhard Emil Bach (1849 - 1902), "Im Walde wandle ich und weine", op. 30 (Drei Lieder für 1 Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
by ?, Bopp von Oberstadt, Gräfin , "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Nicola Dmitrieff , "Lied", from Herbstblätter: Sechs Lieder von Heine, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Erich van Ennes , "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 1 (Three Songs) no. 3 (1877) [sung text not yet checked]
by Hedwig Hertz , "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", published 1867 [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder von Heinrich Heine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert von Hornstein (1833 - 1890), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", from Letzte Lieder, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
by Andrew Hudson , "Im Walde wandl ich und weine" [sung text not yet checked]
by Josip Ipavec (1873 - 1921), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", published 1998 [sung text not yet checked]
by K. G. Ochsner , "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 1 (Sex sange) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugen Philips , "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 17 (Vier Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Sergeyevich Potolovsky (1878 - 1927), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerhard Rühm (b. 1930), "Im Walde wandl' ich", 1949, from Fünf Chansons mit einem Vorspiel nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Sandler , "Im Walde wandl' ich", 1946-7, published 1969 [ voice and piano ], from Fem sånger : tonsatta 1946-47, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Im Walde wandl' ich und weine", published 1851, from Die Heimkehr : 88 Gedichte aus H. Heine's Reisebildern, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George Howard Clutsam.
Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Garnet Wolseley Cox.
Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by William Gardiner Hammond.
Also set in English, a translation by Mary Alexander (1806 - 1859) ; composed by Fanny Hensel.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Robert Caby.
Also set in Romanian (Română), a translation by Ștefan Octavian Iosif (1875 - 1914) ; composed by Sabin Vasile Drăgoi.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , no title, written 1857 ; composed by Nikolay Sergeyevich Potolovsky.
Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Julián Aguirre.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, p. 88, first published 1887
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 42

Je me promène et pleure dans la forêt

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Je me promène et pleure dans la forêt,
La grive est perchée dans les hauteurs ;
Elle sautille et chante tout doucement :
Pourquoi as-tu aussi mal ?

« Les hirondelles, tes sœurs
Peuvent te le dire mon enfant ;
Elles habitaient des nids malins,
Là où sont les fenêtres de ma bien-aimée. »

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 4

This text was added to the website: 2009-04-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 54