LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,102)
  • Text Authors (19,442)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

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

Ist auch schmuck nicht mein Rößlein
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE FRE ITA
  Ist [auch]1 schmuck nicht mein Rößlein,
So [ist's]2 doch [recht]1 klug,
Trägt im Finstern zu 'nem Schlößlein
Mich rasch noch genug.

  Ist das Schloß auch nicht prächtig,
[Zum Garten aus]3 der Thür
Tritt ein [Mädchen doch]4 allnächtig
Dort freundlich herfür.

  Und ist auch [die]5 Kleine
[Nicht die Schönst']6 auf der Welt,
So gibt's doch [just]7 Keine,
Die [mir besser]8 gefällt.

  Und spricht sie vom Freien:
So schwing' ich mich [auf mein]9 Roß --
Ich bleibe [im]10 Freien,
Und sie auf dem Schloß.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   H. Sommer •   A. Wallnöfer •   A. Wallnöfer •   B. Walter 

About the headline (FAQ)

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's sämmtliche Werke, Zweite Auflage, Erster Band, Biographische Einleitung und Gedichte, Leipzig: Voigt & Günther, 1864, page 246.

1 omitted by B. Walter
2 Wallnöfer: "ist es"
3 B. Walter: "Aus dem Garten vor"
4 Sommer: "Mädchen"
5 Wallnöfer: "meine"
6 Wallnöfer: "Die Schönst' nicht"
7 Wallnöfer: "sicherlich"
8 Wallnöfer: "besser mir"
9 Wallnöfer: "aufs"
10 Wallnöfer: "fern im"

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wanderlieder, in Der Soldat, no. 1 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Der Soldat", c1920-23 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eduard Behm (1862 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Der Soldat", op. 21 (Acht Gesänge) no. 3, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Frankfurt a/M., Henkel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jan Karol Gall (1856 - 1912), "Der Soldat", op. 9 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georg Haeser (1865 - 1945), "Der Soldat", op. 37 (Vier Lieder von Joseph von Eichendorff) no. 2, published [192-?] [ voice and piano ; or men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Der Soldat", op. 22 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Der Soldat", published 1911 [ voice and guitar ], Munich: Verlag Gitarrefreund [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959), "Der Soldat", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hug & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Martin Plüddemann (1854 - 1897), "Der Soldat", op. 50 (Drei Gedichte für Männerchor) no. 2, published 1898 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Rob. Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Der Soldat", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 4 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 89 (Vier Volkslieder für eine Singstimme mit Clavierbegleitung) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 89b (Vier Gesänge im Volkston) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Der Soldat", 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder von Josef von Eichendorff, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Der Soldat I" [ voice and piano ], from Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Josef Venantius von Wöss (1863 - 1943), "Der Soldat", op. 18 no. 4, published 1910 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El soldat I", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The soldier", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le soldat", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Anche se non è elegante il mio cavallo", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris