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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Verstummt sind Pauken, Posaunen und...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Verstummt sind Pauken, Posaunen und Zinken.
An Salomos Lager Wache halten
die schwertgegürteten Engelgestalten,
sechstausend zur Rechten, sechstausend zur Linken.

Sie schützen den König vor träumendem Leide,
und zieht er finster die Brauen zusammen,
da fahren sogleich die stählernen Flammen,
zwölftausend Schwerter, hervor aus der Scheide.

Doch wieder zurück in die Scheide fallen
die Schwerter der Engel. Das nächtliche Grauen
verschwindet, es glätten sich wieder die Brauen
des Schläfers, und seine Lippen lallen:

O Sulamith! das Reich ist mein Erbe,
die Lande sind mir untertänig.
bin über Juda und Israel König -
doch liebst du mich nicht, so welk ich und sterbe.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Salomo", appears in Romanzero, in 2. Zweites Buch, in Lazarus, no. 10 [author's text not yet checked 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 (Isador) George Henschel (1850 - 1934), "Salomo : Ballade", op. 54, published 1897 [ baritone and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Hermann (1870 - 1931), "Salomo", op. 23 (Drei Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Rudolf) Walther Hirschberg (1889 - 1960), "König Salomo", op. 35b no. 15, published 1932 [ medium voice or low voice with piano ], from Von Gott und Welt : zehn Lieder [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacob Knoller , "Salomon", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Verstummt sind Pauken, Posaunen und Zinken", 1937, from Fünf Heine-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Erwin Löwenfeld (1882 - 1949), as Erwin Lendvai, "Verstummt sind Pauken, Posaunen und Zinken", op. 34 (Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Salomo", published 1914? [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Kaspar Roeseling (1894 - 1960), "Verstummt sind Pauken, Posaunen und Zinken", published c1947, from Vier Chansons, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag (1866 - 1950), "Salomo", 192-? [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2, as Else Headlam [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , "Solomon", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, pages 238-239, first published 1887


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 101

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