High above the silent heights

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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Hoch über stillen Höhen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE SPA

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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Text Authorship:

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr 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 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Albin Fries (b. 1955), "Anklänge", op. 37 no. 3 (2013) [ voice and piano ], from 8 Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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 [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Reminiscències", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfonso Sebastián) , copyright © 2021, (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

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

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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Translation of title "Anklänge" = "Reminiscences"

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe, in Anklänge, no. 2
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37