Shepherd's Sunday Song | This is the Lord's own day!

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by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Das ist der Tag des Herrn!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE

Das ist der Tag des Herrn!
Ich bin allein auf weiter Flur;
Noch eine Morgenglocke nur,
Nun Stille nah und fern.

Anbetend knie ich hier.
O süßes Graun, geheimes Wehn,
Als knieten viele ungesehn
Und beteten mit mir.

Der Himmel nah und fern
Er ist so [klar]¹ und feierlich,
So ganz, als wollt er öffnen sich.
Das ist der Tag des Herrn!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Hensel • F. Mendelssohn

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Note: Hensel's score has "Nur" in stanza 1, line 3, word 1, but this is probably a typo.

¹ Hensel, Mendelssohn: "still" (in some printings)

Text Authorship:

by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", appears in 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 Ernesto Drangosch (1882 - 1925), "Schäfers Sonntagslied ", op. 4 no. 5 (1906) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Schäfers Sonntagslied ", op. 34b, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Flügel (1812 - 1900), "Das ist der Tag des Herrn", op. 8 no. 8, published << 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, no. 8, Magdeburg: Heinrichshofen'sche Buch- und Musikalien Handlung [sung text not yet checked]
by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", H-U 78 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alexis Holländer (1840 - 1924), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 30 (Zwölf Lieder für Alt (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1883 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
by J. G. Hübner , "Schäfers Sonntagslied" [sung text not yet checked]
by Al. Kern , "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 3 (Drei Gedichte für Bass (oder Alt) mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1856 [ bass or alto and piano ], Wien, Haslinger [sung text not yet checked]
by Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 23 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, KWV. 9103 no. 1, published 1821? [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text checked 1 time]
by Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 24 ([Zwölf] Gedichte von Uhland), Heft 1 no. 5, published 1845 [ vocal quartet for male voices or men's chorus a cappella ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Sonntagsmorgen", op. posth. 77 (Drei Lieder für zwei Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1 (1836), published 1849 [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 117 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1850 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Sonntagsfeier", op. 30 (Praktischer Unterricht im Chorgesange für Volksschulen, höhere Lehranstalten und Gesangvereine) no. 14, published 1867, in Praktischer Unterricht im Chorgesange, in Schul-Lieder-Anhang, Nordsingen: C. H. Beck'schen Buchhandlung [sung text not yet checked]
by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", op. 15 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1 (1891), published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 62

Shepherd's Sunday Song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

This is the Lord's own day!
In open fields I am alone;
'tis but one morning bell's lone tone
that now has died away.

In prayer I bend my knee.
O pleasant awe, mysterious breeze,
as if a lot did bend their knees
and pray, unseen, with me.

Now, near and far away,
the sky is clear and dignified,
as if it meant to open wide.
This is the Lord's own day!

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Schäfers Sonntagslied", appears in Lieder
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 72