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by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776)
Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Sicheln schallen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Sicheln schallen;
Ähren fallen
Unter Sichelschall;
Auf den Mädchenhüten
[Zittern blaue]1 Blüten;
[Freud']2 ist überall!

Sicheln klingen;
Mädchen singen,
Unter Sichelklang;
[Bis, vom Mond beschimmert,
Rings die Stoppel flimmert,
Tönt der Erntesang.]3 

[Alles springet,
Alles singet]4,
Was nur lallen kann.
Bei dem Erntemahle
Ißt aus einer Schale
Knecht und Bauersmann. 

Hans und Michel
Schärft die Sichel,
Pfeift ein Lied dazu,
Mähet; dann beginnen
Schnell die Binderinnen,
Binden sonder Ruh.

Jeder scherzet,
Jeder herzet
Dann sein [Liebelein]5.
Nach geleerten Kannen
[Gehen]6 sie von dannen,
Singen und juchein!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   F. Mendelssohn •   H. Nägeli •   F. Silcher •   C. Weyse 

F. Mendelssohn sets stanzas 1-3, 5
F. Schubert sets stanzas 1-3, 5
C. Weyse sets stanzas 1-3, 5
F. Silcher sets stanza 1
H. Nägeli sets stanzas 1-2, 5

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. Besorgt durch seine Freunde Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg und Johann Heinrich Voß. Carlsruhe, bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1784, pages 28-29; and with Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty's Sämtliche Werke kritisch und chronologisch herausgegeben von Wilhelm Michael, Erster Band, Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1914, pages 145-146.

1 Nägeli: "Spielen weisse"
2 Hölty (original version): "Wonn'"
3 Hölty (original version):
Bis das Mondlicht schimmert,
Auf den Stoppeln flimmert,
Frohen Erndtesang.
4 Schubert (Neue Gesamtausgabe): "Alles singet, / Alles springet"
5 Schubert (Neue Gesamtausgabe): "Liebchen fein"
6 Schubert (Neue Gesamtausgabe): "Ziehen"

Text Authorship:

  • by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Erntelied", written 1775, first published 1776 [author's text checked 2 times 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 (Carl) Ludwig (Heinrich) Berger (1777 - 1839), "Erntelied ", op. 17 no. 8, published 1825 [ voice and piano ], from Neun deutsche Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 8, Berlin: bei Fr. Laue [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustav Blasser , "Erntelied", op. 20 (Hölty-Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 1 no. 4, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Kratochwill [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Sicheln schallen", stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Franz Xaver Mozart (1791 - 1844), "Erntelied" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773 - 1836), "Schnitterlied", published 1799, stanzas 1-2,5 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder in Musik gesetzt, dritte Sammlung, Zürich: im Verlage des Verfassers [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Erntelied", D 434 (1816), published 1850, stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Zur Erndtezeit", published 1842, stanza 1 [ vocal trio a cappella ], from Zwölf Kinderlieder für Schule und Haus, von Ernst Moritz Arndt, Agnes Franz, Fr. Güll, Hölty, Wilh. Müller, Christoph Schmid, K.W. Wiedenfeld etc. zwei- und dreistimmig, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "Ernte Lied", op. 40 (Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte von Hölty) no. 6 [ voice and piano ], Augsburg, Gombart, No. 290 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774 - 1842), "Sicheln schallen", 1790, stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DAN Danish (Dansk) [singable] (Rasmus Frankenau) , "Vipper springe over klinge", first published 1799
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Oogstlied", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Sickles clang", copyright ©
  • ENG English [singable] (Francis L. Soper) , "May Song", appears in Sixty melodies for youth, for two, three, and four voices, composed by Silcher, adapted to English words, for the use of schools and singing classes, first published 1850 [an adaptation]
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant de la moisson", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 94

Chant de la moisson
Language: French (Français)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Les faucilles sonnent,
Les épis tombent
Sous les faucilles qui sonnent ;
Sur les bonnets des jeunes filles
Des fleurs bleues tremblent,
La joie est partout.

Les faucilles résonnent,
Les jeunes filles chantent
Au son des faucilles ;
Jusqu'à ce que scintillant au clair de lune
Le chaume brille tout autour
Et retentisse le chant de la moisson.

Tous sautent,
Tous chantent,
Ceux qui peuvent seulement balbutier.
À la fête de la moisson,
Mangent à la même écuelle
Le valet et le maître.








Chacun plaisante,
Chacun cajole
Sa petite amie.
Quand les chopes sont vides,
Ils s'en vont
En chantant et en poussant des cris de joie.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2010 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Erntelied", written 1775, first published 1776
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
Line count: 24
Word count: 105

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