by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Die schlanke Wasserlilie
Language: German (Deutsch)
Die schlanke Wasserlilie Schaut träumend empor aus dem See; Da grüßt der Mond herunter Mit lichtem Liebesweh. Verschämt senkt sie das Köpfchen Wieder hinab zu den Welln -- Da sieht sie zu ihren Füßen Den armen blassen Geselln.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed 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 244
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 15 [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 Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 14 (Herbstträume) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Lyrische Traumbilder in Dichtungen, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. Bollmann , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 2 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1906? [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Brauer , "Frühlingslied", op. 5 (Zwei Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Bernard H. Bremer (b. 1830), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Sechs Gedichte) no. 3, published 18-? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nicolae Bretan (1887 - 1968), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", published 198-? [ medium voice and piano ], note: also set in English ("The slender water lily") and Romanian ("Zveltul nufar") [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Brüggemann , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Brune (1856 - 1922), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 22 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Hannover, Schmorl & von Seefeld [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Yulyevich Davidov (1838 - 1889), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erazm Rafal Dłuski (1857 - 1923), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Elbogen (1854 - 1909), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Zwei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 21 (Acht Gesänge) no. 4, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Frankfurt a/M., Henkel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 51 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 7, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Geisler (1856 - 1919), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 no. 7, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung. 1. Folge. Zwölf Dichtungen von Heine und Rückert, no. 7, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Yulyevich Goldstein (1851 - 1887), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 8 (Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oskar Guttmann (d. 1943), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Heine-Lieder (1904-1906)) no. 2, published 1911? [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. B. Hamma , "Die Wasserlilie", from Vier Gedichte, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Mond und Lilie", op. 16, Heft 1 (Frühling und Liebe) no. 5, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], from Neuer Frühling: Liederkreis von zwölf Gesängen von Heinrich Heine, no. 5, Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vojtěch Hlaváč (1849 - 1911), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by M. Isaak , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Jahn (1813 - 1869), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Acht Lieder (erste Sammlung), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kott , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinz Kratochwil (1933 - 1995), "Die Lilie", op. 1b (Drei Lieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine) no. 3 (1952) [ voice and string trio ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. A. von Laffert , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", 1847 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Boleslav Mikhailovich Markevich (1822 - 1884), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitry Mikheyevich Melkikh (1885 - 1943), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 3 (Chetyre stikhotvorenija : G. Geine) no. 1, published 1905? [ voice and piano ], also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Eduard Meyer (1822 - 1899), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1850 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
- by Miklaschewsky , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario van Overeem (1872 - 1946), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
- by S. Pantschenko , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", 1884-6? [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Popp (1828 - 1903), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Lieder, Heft 3, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Madame) V. Preiss , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Ramann (1832 - 1897), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 12 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2, published 1869 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Kassel, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Rankl (1898 - 1968), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie ", 1919 [ high voice and string quintet ], from 2 Gedichte von Heinrich Heine, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rapport , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Roth (1852 - 1926), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 13 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Lied", op. 31 (Sechs Gesänge für vier Männerstimmen) no. 1 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Samson , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. I. Reihe, Heft V, no. 1, Dresden, Arnold [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die Wasserlilie (Die schöne Wasserlilie)", WoO. 82 (c1902?) [ voice and piano ], unpublished fragment [sung text not yet checked]
- by K. Schreider , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konrad Schröder , "Wasserlilie und Mond", op. 1 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Feopemptovich Solovyov (1846 - 1916), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", published 1872 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Spicker (1858 - 1912), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 18 (Lieder) no. 2, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fr. Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Madame) Sybin , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adam Teleki , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Timm (1811 - 1892), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (1811 - 1886), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 18 (Liebeslust und Leid : Gedichte von Heine) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marie Vanden Heuvel , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", published 1926, from Heine-Idyllen, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 4 no. 3, published 1879 [ low voice and piano ], from Blumen von H. Heine : vier Gesänge, no. 3, Leipzig, Kistner, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Willy Viol (b. 1848), "Wasserlilie", op. 9 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Wetz (1875 - 1935), "Die Wasserlilie", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 4, published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig: Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Winterberg (1884 - 1930), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Winterberger (1834 - 1914), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 7, published 1862 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix von Woyrsch (1860 - 1944), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte und V. resp. Vcello. ) no. 3, published 1884 [ voice, piano, and violin ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", 1889-1890, from Sieben Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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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 Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887) , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 197, first published 1887 ; composed by Walter H. Arnold, George Frederick Boyle.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Edward Bruce.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Gwendolyn Avril Coleridge-Taylor.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) ; composed by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui, Aleksey Avgustovich Davidov, Karl Yulyevich Davidov, Erazm Rafal Dłuski, Boleslav Mikhailovich Markevich, Dmitry Mikheyevich Melkikh, Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, Vyacheslav Viktorovich Paskhalov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) , no title, first published 1845 ; composed by Eduard Yulyevich Goldstein, Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shchurovsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "L'esvelt nenúfar", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , "The slender waterlily", copyright ©, (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) , "Quand l'élégante fleur de nénuphar", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Lo snello giglio d'acqua", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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