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Hörst du nicht die Quellen gehen Zwischen Stein und Blumen weit Nach den stillen Waldesseen, Wo die Marmorbilder stehen In der schönen Einsamkeit? Von den Bergen sacht hernieder, Weckend die uralten Lieder, Steigt die wunderbare Nacht, Und die Gründe glänzen wieder, Wie du's oft im Traum gedacht. Kennst die Blume du, entsprossen In dem mondbeglänzten Grund? Aus der Knospe, halb erschlossen, Junge Glieder blühend sprossen, Weiße Arme, roter Mund, Und die Nachtigallen schlagen, Und rings hebt es an zu klagen, Ach, vor Liebe todeswund, Von versunknen schönen Tagen -- Komm, o komm zum stillen Grund!
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Confirmed with Gedichte von Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag, 1892, page 222. Note: in some posthumous anthologies, the poem appears with the title "Einsamkeit", cf. Dichtergrüße. Neuere deutsche Lyrik ausgewählt von Elise Polko, Leipzig, G. F. Amelang's Verlag, 1873, page 140 (the text splits the first stanza into two stanzas of five lines each, then omits the first five lines of the second stanza and leaves the last five lines as its third stanza, while changing line -3 to "Ach, von Liebe todeswund"; the poem is also titled "Einsamkeit" in Deutscher Hort, Bände 44 – 47, Kunst und Leben 3.Teil, Leipzig : Verlag von Quelle & Meyer, 1925, p.10.
Text Authorship:
- by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Nachtzauber", written 1853, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und 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 E. Annin , "Nachtzauber", op. 1 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Dörffel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rafael Behn , "Einsamkeit", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albin Fries (b. 1955), "Nachtzauber", op. 37 no. 1 (2013) [ voice and piano ], from 8 Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Heuser (1863 - 1942), "Einsamkeit", op. 20 (Drei Duette für 2 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1892 [ vocal duet with piano ], Leipzig, Rud. Dietrich [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Kreuzhage (1874 - 1956), "Einsamkeit", op. 7 (Drei Lieder und Gesänge für 1 hohe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], Köln, Schloss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878 - 1941), "Einsamkeit", op. 9 (Drei Chöre) no. 1 (1911) [ mixed chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Neugebauer , "Einsamkeit", op. 51 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hientzsch [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Friedrich Wilhelm Reissmann (1825 - 1903), "Komm", op. 37 (Sechs Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1875 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], Berlin, Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Martin Cornelius Rübner (1853 - 1929), "Einsamkeit", op. 18 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Baden-Baden, Sommermeyer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Nachtzauber", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 3 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Spicker (1858 - 1912), "Nachtzauber", op. 21 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fr. Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf, Graf von Sporck (1839 - 1904), "Nachtzauber", published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Achtzehn Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Nachtzauber", op. 45 (Sieben Eichendorff-Lieder) no. 1, published 1933 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy Viol (b. 1848), "Einsamkeit", op. 13 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by O. Winkelmann , "Einsamkeit", op. 2 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Uhse [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Nachtzauber", 1886-8 [ voice and piano ], from Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leopold Carl Wolf (1859 - 1932), "Nachtzauber", op. 23 (Sechs Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1891 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 95
Do you not hear the spring running between the stones and flowers far toward the quiet wood lakes, where the marble statues stand in fine solitude? From the mountains, gently awakening ancient songs, the wondrous night descends and the earth gleams again as you often see in a dream. Do you know the flower that blooms in the moonlit land, from whose buds, half-open, young limbs bloom with white arms and red mouth? And the nightingale sings, and all around, a lament is raised; alas, wounded fatally by love, by lovely days now gone forever - come, o come to the silent land!
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Translation of title "Nachtzauber" = "Night magic"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), "Nachtzauber", written 1853, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 102