Promenade | Ils se promènent à travers la forêt verte

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by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Spaziergang

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE NOR

  Sie wandeln durch des Waldes Grün.
Vögel singen und Blumen blühn.

  Ein blasser Mann und ein stilles Kind.
Sie schlürfen durstig den Frühlingswind.

  Und der Knabe [bleibt]¹ verwundert stehn:
"Ich glaub', ich kann die Mutter sehn."

  Sie starren in das junge Grün . . .
Vögel singen und Blumen blühn.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Berg

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Confirmed with Alfred Mombert, Tag und Nacht. Gedichte, Heidelberg: Verlag von J. Hörning, 1894, page 46

¹ Berg: "blieb"

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Spaziergang", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte, first published 1894 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Spaziergang", 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 57 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Spaziergang", op. 14 no. 4 (1936) [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Passeig", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Stroll", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Promenade", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Spasertur", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Jakob Kellner , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 52

Promenade

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Ils se promènent à travers la forêt verte,
Les oiseaux chantent et les fleurs fleurissent.
Un homme pâle et un enfant silencieux,
Assoiffés, ils boivent le vent du printemps.
Et l'enfant reste étonné
"Je crois que je peux voir la mère."
Ils regardent fixement dans l'herbe fraîche.
Les oiseaux chantent et les fleurs fleurissent.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Spaziergang", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte, first published 1894
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 54