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Hör' ich ein Waldhorn klingen Durch das Gebirge hin, Ich zöge dann so gerne Wohl in die blaue Ferne Zu einer Jägerin. [Im dunklen Tannenwalde]1, Da steht des Försters Haus, Im [tiefen]2 Wald verborgen. Da schaut [am frühen]3 Morgen [Das]4 Töchterlein heraus. Der Vater und die Tochter, Die machen Alles wund, Der Vater [schießt die]5 Hirschlein, [Die Tochter]6 trifft die Bürschlein Tief in des Herzens Grund.
H. Pfitzner sets stanzas 2-3
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with August Schnezler, Gedichte, Zweite, vermehrte Ausgabe, Karlsruhe: Druck und Verlag von Creuzbauer und Hasper, 1846, page 44.
First published in Morgenblatt für gebildete Leser, 1833.
1 Pfitzner: "Im tiefen Wald verborgen"; Lachner: "Im kühlen Tannenwalde"; Reinecke: "Im grünen Tannenwalde"2 Gade, Reinecke: "grünen"
3 Pfitzner: "an jedem"
4 Pfitzner: "Sein"
5 Pfitzner: "trifft das"
6 Reinecke: "Das Mädchen"
Text Authorship:
- by August Schnezler (1809 - 1853), "Waldhornruf", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wolken und Sterne der Jugendzeit (1828-1838), in Waldblätter, no. 4, first published 1833 [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 Louis Dames (b. 1815), "Waldhornruf", op. 1 (Sechs deutsche Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1837 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Stackebrandt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890), "Waldhornruf" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890), "Hör' ich ein Waldhorn klingen", 1847 [ men's chorus ], from Sechs Gesänge für Männerstimmen, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. Grünbaum , "Waldhornruf", op. 4 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Challier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810 - 1882), "Des Försters Töchterlein", op. 9 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vinzenz Lachner (1811 - 1893), "Waldhornruf", published 1842 [ tenor, horn, piano ], Mainz: Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Xaver Pentenrieder (1813 - 1867), "Waldhornruf" [ voice and piano ], Falter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Im tiefen Wald verborgen", op. 2 no. 4 (1888/9), published 1893, stanzas 2-3 [ voice and piano ], Koblenz, A. Metzger [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinrich Proch (1809 - 1878), "Des Jäger's Töchterlein", op. 207, published 1866 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Hör' ich ein Waldhorn klingen", op. 27 (Sechs Lieder umd Gesänge) no. 2 (1850) [ baritone or bass and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859), "Des Försters Töchterlein", op. 127 (Lieder und Gesänge für Sopran, 37ste Liedersammlung) no. 6, published 1838 [ soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Peters [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Karl) August Schuster (1807 - 1877), "Hör' ich ein Waldhorn klingen", op. 18 (6 Lieder) no. 4, published 1836 [ bass and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (1811 - 1886), "Waldhornruf", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: F. Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Vogt , "Waldhornruf" [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-11-15
Line count: 15
Word count: 74
I hear a hunting horn calling Through the mountains, I would very much like to follow it Right across the blue expanse To the side of a huntress. Within the dark pine forest Stands a woodsman’s house, Concealed in the dark wood. There, early each morning His young daughter peers out. The father and the daughter, Each can wound; the father shoots the young deer, The daughter smites the young man Deep in the heart’s core.
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Translations of title(s):
"Des Försters Töchterlein" = "The Woodsman's Young Daughter"
"Des Jäger's Töchterlein" = "The Hunter's Young Daughter"
"Hör' ich ein Waldhorn klingen" = "I Hear a Hunting Horn Calling"
"Im tiefen Wald verborgen" = "Concealed in the Dark Wood"
"Waldhornruf" = "Call of the Hunting Horn"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by August Schnezler (1809 - 1853), "Waldhornruf", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wolken und Sterne der Jugendzeit (1828-1838), in Waldblätter, no. 4, first published 1833
This text was added to the website: 2022-10-05
Line count: 15
Word count: 76