[Hab' oft]1 im Kreise der Lieben
  [In duftigem]2 Grase geruht,
Und mir ein [Liedlein]3 gesungen,
  Und alles war hübsch und gut.

Hab' einsam auch mich gehärmet
  [In bangem, düsterem Muth,]4
[Und habe wieder gesungen,
  Und alles war wieder gut.]5

Und manches, was ich erfahren,
  Verkocht' ich in stiller Wuth,
[Und]6 kam ich wieder [zu singen]7,
  War alles auch wieder gut.

[Sollst nicht uns]8 lange klagen,
  Was alles dir wehe thut,
Nur frisch, [nur]9 frisch gesungen!
  Und alles wird wieder gut.

J. Lang sets lines 1-7

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Confirmed with Adelbert von Chamisso Frauen-Liebe und –Leben und andere ausgewählte Gedichte, Berlin: Globus Verlag, [no year], page 88.

Note: Speyer has a typo in stanza 4, line 2, word 5 ("that" instead of "thut").

¹ Lang: "Ich hab' "
² Bruch, Le Beau: "Im duftigen"
³ Bruch: "Liedchen"
⁴ Bruch: "Und hatte nicht Sinn und Muth"; Le Beau: "In bangen, düsterem Muth"
⁵ Bruch: "Doch kam ich wieder zu singen/ War Alles auch wieder gut."
⁶ Bruch: "Doch"
⁷ Speyer: "zum Singen"
⁸ Bruch: "Drum sollst nicht"
⁹ Speyer: "und"

Text Authorship:

• by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 - 1838), "Frisch gesungen", appears in Lieder und lyrisch epische Gedichte, first published 1829 [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 Friederike Birnbaum (b. 1831), "Frisch gesungen", c1890 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Friederike Birnbaum (b. 1831), "Frisch gesungen", published 1863 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, Heft 2, no. 5, Köln, Küpper [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Bruch (1838 - 1920), "Frisch gesungen", op. 7 (6 Gesänge) no. 6, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jacoba Craamer (1855 - 1934), "Frisch gesungen" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1, Amsterdam : De Nieuwe Muziekhandel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Frisch gesungen", 2000 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Albert Ellmenreich (1816 - 1905), "Frisch gesungen ", published 1890 [ men's chorus a cappella ], from Sechs Gesänge für Männerchor, no. 4, Leipzig, Kahnt Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Frisch gesungen", op. 53 (3 Lieder für Bass (oder Alt) mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1858 [ bass or alto and piano ], Wien, Lewy [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Gottlieb Hering (1766 - 1853), "Frisch gesungen", published 1880 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from [Zwölf] Lieder für S., A., T. und B., no. 11, Dresden, Näumann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Frisch gesungen", op. 8 (Zwölf Lieder im Volkston für 1 Singtimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Jelmoli (1877 - 1936), "Frisch gesungen" [ soprano and piano ], from Frisch gesungen, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Frisch gesungen von Chamisso", published 1843 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Mechetti [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Hab' oft im Kreise der Lieben", c1867, lines 1-7 [ voice and piano ], unpublished, incomplete (only voice part written down, but empty staves left for the piano part) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850 - 1927), "Frisch gesungen", op. 33 (Drei Lieder für 1 höhere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3 (1884), published 1887 [ high voice and piano ], Darmstadt, M. Bölling [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Frisch gesungen", op. 46 (Sieben Gedichte = Семь стихотворений (Sem' stikhotvorenij)) no. 7 (1925-6) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Oskar Merikanto (1868 - 1924), "Frisch gesungen", op. 108 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl, Graf Nostitz , "Frisch gesungen", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Fünfzig Lieder, no. 15, Prag, Hoffmann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josef Reiter (1862 - 1939), "Frisch gesungen", op. 47 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 3, published 1899 [ four-part men's chorus ], Leipzig, Otto Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Frisch gesungen" [ 4v ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wilhelm Speyer (1790 - 1878), "Frisch gesungen" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Vigorously sung", copyright © 2011, (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: 80

In the circle of my dear ones, I [have often]1
  Rested in the scented grass,
And sung a song to myself,
  And everything was lovely and good.

I have grieved in solitary sorrow,
  [With anxious, sombre spirit]2,
[And then I sang again,
  And everything was once more in order.]3

And much that I have experienced,
  I brooded upon in silent wrath,
[And]4 when I returned to singing
  Everything was once more in order.

[You are]5 not to lament to us at length
  About everything that hurts you,
Only sing -- sing boldly!
  And everything will once more be in order.