Das Grab ist tief und stille,
Und schauderhaft sein Rand.
Es deckt mit schwarzer Hülle
Ein unbekanntes Land.

Das Lied der Nachtigallen
Tönt nicht in seinem Schooß.
Der [Freundschaft]1 Rosen fallen
Nur auf des Hügels Moos.

Verlaßne Bräute ringen
Umsonst die Hände wund;
Der [Waise]2 Klagen dringen
Nicht in der Tiefe Grund.

Doch sonst an keinem Orte
Wohnt die ersehnte Ruh;
Nur durch die [dunkle]3 Pforte
Geht [man]4 der Heimat zu. 

Das arme Herz, hienieden
Von manchem Sturm bewegt,
Erlangt den wahren Frieden
Nur [wo]5 es nicht mehr schlägt.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von J. G. von Salis. Gesammelt durch seinen Freund Friedrich Matthisson. Zürich, bey Orell, Gessner, Füssli und Compagnie. 1793, pages 35-36; and with Gedichte von J. G. von Salis. Neueste Auflage. Wien 1815. Bey B. Ph. Bauer, pages 36-37.

First published in a different version in Göttinger Musenalmanach 1788, see below.

¹ Reichardt: "Liebe"
² Schubert (D.643A), Randhartinger: "Waisen"
³ Westenholz: "enge"
⁴ Reichardt: "wir"
⁵ Westenholz: "wenn"

Text Authorship:

• by Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis (1762 - 1834), "Das Grab", written 1783, first published 1788 [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 Gustav Flügel (1812 - 1900), "Das Grab ist tief und stille", op. 8 no. 4, published << 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, no. 4, Magdeburg: Heinrichshofen'sche Buch- und Musikalien Handlung [sung text not yet checked]
• by J. G. Hübner , "Das Grab" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Das Grab", op. 11a (10 Deutsche Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1 (1813), published [1814] [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl Theodor Moritz (1772 - 1834), "Das Grab", op. 5 (Dreizehn Lieder und Gesaenge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 7 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Johann Albrecht Muck (1763 - 1839), "Das Grab", published [1793], Leipzig: Gedruckt in der Breitkopfischen notendruckerey [sung text not yet checked]
• by Benedikt Randhartinger (1802 - 1893), "Das Grab" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Das Grab", published 1797 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge der Klage und des Trostes, no. 1, Berlin, Johann Friedrich Unger [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Das Grab ist tief und stille", op. 5 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs deutsche Lieder, zwey davon mit Variazionen am Forte Piano zu singen von Vincent Righini, Königl. Preussischen Capellmeister, no. 4, Hamburg: Bey John. Augt. Böhme [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Das Grab ist tief und stille", published [c1805] [ voice and piano ], from Sechs deutsche Lieder in Musik gesezt von Vincenzo Righini, Heft III, no. 6, Mainz: Bey Carl Zulehner [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786 - 1868), "Das Grab", published 1811 [ vocal quartet and piano ad libitum ], Zürich : H. G. Nägeli [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Das Grab", WoO. 1 (1901) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Grab", D 330 (1815), published 1895 [ chorus and piano ], second setting [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Grab", D 377 (1816), published 1872 [ ttbb chorus and piano ], third setting [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Grab", D 569 (1817), published 1895 [ chorus and piano ], fourth setting [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Grab", D 643A (1819), published 1972 [ satb quartet ], fifth setting [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Grab", D 329A (1815?) [ satb chorus ], first setting; sketch for a canon [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "Das Grab" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759 - 1838), "Das Grab", op. 4 (Zwölf deutsche Lieder mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Das Grab", published 1802, from Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft IV, no. 24 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Johann Anton André.

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Ferdinand Anacker.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Platon Grigorevich Obodovsky (1803 - 1861?4) ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het graf", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The grave", copyright ©
• ENG English (George MacDonald) , "The grave", appears in Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German, first published 1897
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La tombe", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 89

Mrachen i uzhasen
Bezmyatezhny'j grob:
Im zakry't bezvestny'j
Otdalenny'j kraj.

Pesni Filomely'
Sna ne razvlekut;
Druzhba sy'plet rozy'
Lish` na myagkij dern.

Tshhetno rvut nevesty'
Rusy'e vlasy';
Vopli chad bezrodny'x
V grob ne doletyat.

Ax! lish` v nem edinom
Nash pokoj zhivet!
Im dlya nas otverzty'
K nebesam vrata.

Ranennoe serdce
Goresti streloj,
V nem lish` perestanet
Bit`sya-uny'vat`.