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Hoch über stillen Höhen Stand in dem Wald ein Haus; So einsam war's zu sehen, Dort übern Wald hinaus. Ein Mädchen saß darinnen Bei stiller Abendzeit, Tät seidne Fäden spinnen Zu ihrem Hochzeitskleid.
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Authorship
- by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Anklänge, no. 2 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Anklänge", op. 7 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3 (1853), published 1854 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [text verified 1 time]
- by Albin Fries (b. 1955), "Anklänge", op. 37 no. 3 (2013) [voice and piano], from 8 Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 3. [text not verified]
- by Gustav Lazarus (1861 - 1920), "Anklänge", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1889 [medium voice and piano], Berlin, Schlesinger [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Reminiscences", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Réminiscences", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Herinneringen", copyright © 2014, (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: 8
Word count: 33
High above the silent heights A house stood in the forest; So lonely was it to behold, There, over the forest. A maiden sat there inside in the silent evening time, Spinning silk threads For her wedding-dress.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Anklänge, no. 2
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37