Die blauen Frühlingsaugen
Schau'n aus dem Gras hervor;
Das sind das lieben Veilchen,
Die ich zum Strauß erkor.

  Ich pflücke sie und denke,
Und die Gedanken all,
Die mir im Herzen seufzen,
Singt laut die Nachtigall.

  Ja, was ich denke, singt sie
Lautschmetternd, daß es schallt;
Mein zärtliches Geheimnis
Weiß schon der ganze Wald.

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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 243

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 13 [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 Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (1859 - 1937), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 106 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1898 [ soprano and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Schubert", alternate title: "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", 1919-20, rev. 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder (1836 - 1916), "Lautes Geheimnis", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1, published 1870 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820 - 1867), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 12 (Eine Frühlingsliebe), Heft 2 no. 3, published 1850 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg(e) Felix Benkert , "Lautes Geheimnis", op. 10 (Drei Waldeslieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Magnus Böhme (1827 - 1898), "Das Veilchen", op. 30 (Vier Lieder für gemischten Chor) no. 2, published 1890 [ mixed chorus ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
• by E. Bollmann , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" [ SA chorus a cappella ], from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leopold Damrosch (1832 - 1885), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 13 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1870 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Lichtenberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Decker , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 5 (Zwei Veilchenlieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pauline von Decker (1811 - 1882), "Duett", op. 5, published 1873 [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Georgy Aleksandrovich Demidov (1837 - 1870), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Ehlert (1825 - 1884), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Peters; confirmed with Meine Lieder. Den Freunden aufgezeichnet, Berlin, 1861, Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, page 55 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Armand Erdös (1878 - 1920), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", published 19--?, from Zwölf deutsche Lieder, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig von Erlanger (b. 1862), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 21 (Acht Gedichte von Heinrich Heine), Heft 1 no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Paul Flügel (1844 - 1912), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Greifswald, Verlag der Academischen Buchhandlung (and later: Leipzig, Leuckart, 1876) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Frank (1847 - 1889), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 1 (Zehn Lieder) no. 6, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 20 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1854 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
• by G. Gendt , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Vier Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann (Gustav) Goetz (1840 - 1876), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", c1859 [ soprano and piano ], from 2 Frühlingslieder von E. Geibel und H. Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Édouard de Hartog (1829 - 1909), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Hasse (1834 - 1889), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 2 (Vier Gesänge) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard Hauptmann , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Heiser (1816 - 1897), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 226 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Andreas Henkel (1805 - 1871), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 15 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 3 [ soprano or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Swan Hennessy (1866 - 1929), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Stuttgart, Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
• by A. Hermesdorff , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" [sung text not yet checked]
• by E. Herzogenrath , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Zwei Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Hoffmann (1830 - 1870), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm C. Hollmann (d. 1879), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 1 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Huth (b. 1892), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 28 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Huth (1810 - 1859), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 25 (Sechs Lieder mit leichter Begleitung) no. 3, published 1841 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Frühlingslied", 1896, from Forty Earlier Songs, no. 21 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Gustav Jansen (1831 - 1910), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 15 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alois Jedliczka , "Frühlingslied", from Sechs Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823 - 1903), "Frühlingslied", op. 1 (Zehn Lieder) no. 6, published 1842 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath (1818 - 1896), "Frühlingsaugen", op. 26 (Drei Frühlingslieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard Lerch , "Im Frühling", op. 5 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by W. J. Otto Lessmann (1844 - 1918), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 21 no. 2, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Nachtigallen-Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 2, Berlin, Barth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Locher (1843 - 1915), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme mit Pianoforte -- für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Reinhard Lund (1859 - 1925), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 1 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Martin , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Lieder, Heft 3, no. 17 [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Johann) Albert Gottlieb Methfessel (1785 - 1869), "Das verrathene Geheimniss", op. 93 (Sechs deutsche Gesänge) no. ? [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Friedrich Oelschlaeger (1798 - 1858), "Neuer Frühling", from Lieder und Gesänge, Heft 1, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mario van Overeem (1872 - 1946), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johannes Pauls , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 12 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 6, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Th. Schröder [sung text not yet checked]
• by George Posca , "Im Frühling", op. 28 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard Prosch , "Im Frühling", op. 1 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann Putsch , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Albert Maria) Robert Radecke (1830 - 1911), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 37 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859), "Duett", op. 109 (5 Duettini für hohen und tiefen Sopran mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1836 [ duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josef Renner, jun. (1868 - 1934), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen schau'n aus dem Gras hervor", op. 46 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Regensburg, Boessenecker Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 25 (Vier Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1876 [ medium voice and piano ], Dresden, Ries [sung text not yet checked]
• by L. Rockel , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Rönnberg , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Rosenberg (b. 1862), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 2 (Sechs erotische Gesänge) no. 4, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs erotische Gesänge für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Frühlingslied II", op. 32 (Sechs Lieder von Heine) no. 2, published 1856? [sung text not yet checked]
• by D. Rüst , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 1, Heft 1 no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Samson , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" [sung text not yet checked]
• by August Scharrer (1866 - 1936), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 17 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Baden-Baden, Sommermeyer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Wilhelm Sering (1822 - 1901), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 9 (Zwei Gesänge) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Sperling (1819 - 1871), as Ernst Streben, "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 27, Heft 1 no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Oscar Nathan Straus (1870 - 1954), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 16 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Stille Gedanken", 1878 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Frühlingslied", op. 6 no. 3, published 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gedichte von Göthe, Heine, Uhland, Burns und W. Müller, no. 3, Berlin, Trautwen [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adalbert Ûberlée (1837 - 1897), "Frühlingslied", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Timm [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marie Vanden Heuvel , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", published 1926, from Heine-Idyllen, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 4 no. 2, published 1879 [ low voice and piano ], from Blumen von H. Heine : vier Gesänge, no. 2, Leipzig, Kistner, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Walker (1870 - 1949), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 4, published 1893, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by J. H. W. Werner , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", from Fünf Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexander Winterberger (1834 - 1914), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 9, published 1862 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann Wolff (1845 - 1902), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 9 (Vier Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Ferdinand Würst (1824 - 1881), "Verratene Liebe: Duett", op. 58 (Vier zweistimmige Lieder) no. 2 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Ferdinand Würst (1824 - 1881), "Verratene Liebe", op. 83 [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Franz Hüffer (1843 - 1889) , "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 196, first published 1887 ; composed by George Frederick Boyle.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franz Poenitz.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Elizabeth Philp (1827 - 1885) ; composed by Elizabeth Philp.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ernest Walker.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Larionovich Mikhailov (1829 - 1865) , no title, written 1857 ; composed by Georgy Aleksandrovich Demidov, Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk, Yury Andreyevich Markovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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• Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by M. Litvinets ; composed by Dmytro Lvovych Klebanov.
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• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Les yeux bleus du printemps", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Gli occhi azzurri della primavera", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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