by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Am Kreuzweg wird begraben
Language: German (Deutsch)
Am Kreuzweg wird begraben Wer selber sich brachte um; [Dort]1 wächst eine blaue Blume, Die [Armesünderblum']2. Am Kreuzweg [stand]3 ich und seufzte; Die Nacht war kalt und stumm. Im Mondschein bewegte sich langsam Die [Armesünderblum']2.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 166.
1 Griffes: "Da"2 Cahn-Speyer: "Armensünderblum' "
3 White: "sass"
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 62 [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 Albert Ernst Anton Becker (1834 - 1899), "Am Kreuzweg (Am Kreuzweg wird begraben)", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolph Bergh (1859 - 1924), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 5 (Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 13 (Zehn Lieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf S. Cahn-Speyer (1881 - 1940), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Cöln am Rhein: Verlag Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 10 (Drei Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 1, published 1891 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Herbstzyklus, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olivier Greif (1950 - 2000), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 40 no. 4 (1973), published 2006, from Wiener Konzert: cycle de cinq Lieder sur des poêmes de Heinrich Heine (Lyrisches Intermezzo), no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", A. 16 (c1905-11), published 1970 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four German Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oskar Guttmann (d. 1943), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 1 (Heine-Lieder (1904-1906)) no. 7, published 1911? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Hermann (1869 - 1912), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 1 (Zwölf kleine Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 11, published 1893 [ medium voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 9 (Zwölf Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 4, published [1871] [ voice and piano ], Berlin : Mitschler & Röstell - Collection Litolff ; No. 2015 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Horwitz , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 2 no. 6, from Aus Heine's lyrischem Intermezzo : Liederzyklus, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josip Ipavec (1873 - 1921), "Am Kreuzweg", also set in Slovenian (Slovenščina) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Jenner (1865 - 1920), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", 1883 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernhard Jestl (b. 1960), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", 1986, from Heine-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Am Kreuzweg", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung III, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Alexander Korbay (1846 - 1913), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Krumpröck , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 36 no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 63 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1840 [ voice and piano ], Rudolstadt, Müller [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max von Lüttwitz (1835 - 1897), "Die Armesünder-Blum", op. 9, Heft 2 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ladislao (László) de Makray , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Markees (1863 - 1939), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 5 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 4, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861 - 1932), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 11 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Rahter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Ernst Nessler (1841 - 1890), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 19 (Vier Lieder von Heine) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. Neupert , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", from Fünf Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hug & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by August von Othegraven (1864 - 1946), "Am Kreuzweg" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger (1815 - 1891), "Die Armesünderblum", published 1865?, from Fünf Lieder von H. Heine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rapport , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Rauchbauer (b. 1958), "Am Kreuzweg", 1981, from Zwei Lieder nach Heinrich Heine, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Smolian (1856 - 1911), "Die Armesünderblum", op. 7 no. 1, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf lyrische Skizzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, Frankfurt a/M., Steyl & Thomas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar Thieme , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", published 1855 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei kleine Lieder von Heine, no. 1, Dresden, Brauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 38 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Tofft (1865 - 1931), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 2 (Heine-Album) no. 4, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Kopenhagen, Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine's Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", op. 4 no. 4, published 1879 [ low voice and piano ], from Blumen von H. Heine : vier Gesänge, no. 4, Leipzig, Kistner, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy Viol (b. 1848), "Am Kreuzweg", op. 13 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Berthold Weiss , "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben", Lieder no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Die Arme-Sünderblum", published 1888? [ voice and piano ], from New Albums of Songs with German and English Words, Volume 1, no. 7, London: Pitt & Hatzfeld, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Ewald Zingel (1876 - 1944), "Am Kreuzweg wird begraben" [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
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- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken.
- Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) , "The cross-roads" ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Pierre-René Hirsch (1870 - 1891) [an adaptation] and by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955) [an adaptation] ; composed by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Pyotr Isayevich Veinberg (1831 - 1908) , no title, written 1858 ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.
- Also set in Slovenian (Slovenščina), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Josip Ipavec.
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- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Dmitry Nikolayevich Revutsky (1881 - 1941) ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (T. P. (Peter) Perrin) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 62, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 5
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