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So war's zu aller Frist, Wirst's müssen leiden: Grad, wenn's am schönsten ist, Ach! gilt's zu scheiden! Sonne, du weißt es gut: Mitten im Winken, Grad in der schönsten Gluth, Ach! mußt du sinken! Fluren, wenn spät im Jahr Golden ihr flimmert Und's noch so wunderbar Leuchtet und schimmert, Jäh von der Haide bald, Trüber und trüber, Und aus dem bunten Wald Klingt es herüber: So wars's zu aller Frist, Wirst's müssen leiden: Grad, wenn's am schönsten ist, Ach! gilt's zu scheiden!
Confirmed with Neue Lieder von Friedrich Oser (1874-1884), Basel: Verlag von M. Bernheim, 1885, pages 80-81.
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- by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Grad wenn's am schönsten ist", appears in Neue Lieder [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 Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Grad wenn's am schönsten ist", op. 61 no. 10, published 1886 [ sa chorus ], from Im Freien zu singen. 10 Chorduette für Sopran und Alt (9. Folge) ohne Begleitung. Zum Gebrauch in höheren Schulen und Gesangvereinen, no. 10, Leipzig: Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Just when everything is at its most beautiful", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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It was always thus, You will have to suffer it: Just when everything is at its most beautiful, Ah, one must part! Sun, you know it well: In the middle of your beckoning, Just in the most beautiful glow, Ah! you must sink! Meadows, when late in the year You flicker golden, And when you ever so wondrously Glow and shimmer, Soon abruptly from the heath, Drearily and ever more drearily, And from the colourful woods, Comes the sound: It was always thus, You will have to suffer it: Just when everything is at its most beautiful, Ah, one must part!
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Grad wenn's am schönsten ist", appears in Neue Lieder
This text was added to the website: 2021-01-11
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Word count: 102