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So hab ich wirklich dich verloren, Bist du, o [Schöne]1, mir entflohn? Noch [klingt]2 in den gewohnten Ohren Ein jedes Wort, ein jeder Ton. So wie des Wandrers Blick am Morgen Vergebens in die Lüfte dringt, [Wenn]3, in dem blauen Raum verborgen, Hoch über ihm die Lerche singt: So dringet ängstlich hin und wieder Durch Feld und [Busch und Wald]4 mein Blick; Dich rufen alle meine Lieder; O komm, Geliebte, mir zurück!
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• L. Berger • G. Gerson • K. Hellwig • F. Hensel • B. Randhartinger • J. RöslerAbout the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 67; and with Goethe's Schriften, Achter Band, Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1789, page 117.
1 Berger: "Teure"2 Hensel: "tönt"
3 Schubert (Neue Gesamtausgabe): "Wann"
4 Hensel: "Wald und Busch"
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "An die Entfernte", written 1778, first published 1789 [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 Johann Anton André (1775 - 1842), "An die Entfernte", 1817 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Carl) Ludwig (Heinrich) Berger (1777 - 1839), "An die Entfernte", 1808 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henk Bijvanck (1909 - 1969), "An die Entfernte", from 4 Goethe-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Heinrich Carl Bornhardt (1774 - 1840), "An die Entfernte", 1814+ [sung text not yet checked]
- by Moritz, Graf von Dietrichstein (1775 - 1864), "An die Entfernte", c1813/4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "An die Entfernte ", op. 32 (Lieder und Gesänge von Goethe) no. 4, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Gerson (1790 - 1825), "An die Entfernte ", G. 111 (1817) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Friedrich Ludwig Hellwig (1773 - 1838), "An die Entfernte", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2 (1813), published 1820 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: C. F. Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "An die Entfernte", H-U 105 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Konrad Heubner (1860 - 1905), "An die Entfernte", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder von Goethe für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1883 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "An die Entfernte", op. 6 (Vier Gesänge für 1 tiefere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1884 [ low voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Hünten (1793 - 1878), "An die Entfernte", published 1838 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "An die Entfernte", op. 1 (Acht deutsche Lieder) no. 1 (1828), published 1831 [ voice and piano ], München, Falter und Sohn, note: published without an opus number; designated by Lang in 1867 as opus 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "An die Entfernte" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878 - 1941), "An die Entfernte", op. 11 no. 2, published 1939 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Gedichte von Goethe, no. 2, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "An die Entfernte", op. 5 (Neun Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 7, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Weimar, Kühn [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Albert Maria) Robert Radecke (1830 - 1911), "An die Entfernte", op. 9 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1854 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benedikt Randhartinger (1802 - 1893), "An die Entfernte", op. 112 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], Wien: Glöggl [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "An die Entfernte", published 1792 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ján Josef Rösler (1771 - 1813), "An die ferne Geliebte" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Rudolph , "An die Entfernte ", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Innsbruck, Gross [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Schaffner (d. 1903), "An die Entfernte", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], from Der Liebe Sang. Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, München, Schmid Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Schlottmann (1826 - 1905), "An die Entfernte", op. 44 (10 Goethe'sche Dichtungen) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "An die Entfernte", D 765 (1822), published 1868 [ voice, piano ], Wilhelm Müller, VN 13, Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774 - 1850), "An die Entfernte", op. 55 (Gedichte von Goethe: III) no. 1 (1815?) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949), "So hab ich wirklich dich verloren" [ voice and piano ], from 4 Goethe Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758 - 1832), "An die Entfernte", 1807 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "An die Entfernte", op. 51 no. 3, published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "An die Entfernte", op. 14 (Vier Lieder für eine tiefe Singstimme und Klavier) no. 4 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Winfried (Petrus Ignatius) Zillig (1905 - 1963), "An die Entfernte", 1944 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Walery Grzymałowski ; composed by Stanisław Moniuszko.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by O. Miller ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "A la allunyada", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Aan de vertrokkene", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "To the distant one", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "À celle qui est loin", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "A colei che se n'è andata", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Ariel E. Ramos) , "A la distante", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 72
So have I truly lost you? Have you, o fair one, fled from me? Yet still I can hear in my accustomed ears Every word, every tone of your voice. Just as the wanderer's gaze in the morning Searchingly pierces the heavens in vain When, concealed in the blue expanse High above, the lark sings to him: So does my gaze anxiously search here and there, Through field and bush and forest, Singing to you through all my songs, O come, my darling, back to me!
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "An die Entfernte", written 1778, first published 1789
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 86