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Blühende Frauen, Lasset euch schauen Fröhlich im Tanze Unter dem Kranze! Tanzet zu zweien Unter Schalmeien, Tanzet am Reihen Fröhlich im Maien! Prüfende Kenner Kommet, ihr Männer, Sehet die klaren Bilder sich paaren, Tanzen zu zweien Unter Schalmeien, Tanzen am Reihen Fröhlich im Maien! Freut euch, ihr Alten, Junger Gestalten! Wie ihr gesprungen, Springen die Jungen, Tanzen zu zweien Unter Schalmeien, Tanzen am Reihen Fröhlich im Maien! Junge und schöne Töchter und Söhne, Enkel nicht minder Reizend als Kinder; Tanzen zu zweien Unter Schalmeien, Tanzen am Reihen Fröhlich im Maien! Junges Gelichter, Ihr [nicht seid]1 Richter; Jünglinge, wählet, Eh' es euch fehlet, Tanzet zu zweien Unter Schalmeien, Tanzet am Reihen Fröhlich im Maien!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Strauss: "seid nicht"
Authorship
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Maientanz" [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 Friedrich [Fritz] Kirchner (1840 - 1907), "Maientanz", op. 19 (Drei Lieder für 1. Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Barth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Fröhlich im Maien", AV. 123 (1935) [ men's chorus a cappella ], from Drei Männerchöre nach Gedichten von Friedrich Rückert, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Danse de mai", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Martin Jahn
This text was added to the website: 2012-06-20
Line count: 40
Word count: 113
Blooming women, Let yourselves be seen Merry in the dance Under the wreath! Dance in pairs By the sound of the shawms, Dance in the round Joyfully in Maytime! Connoisseurs who judge, Come, ye men, See the lucid Images come together in pairs, Dancing in twos To the sound of the shawms, Dancing in the round Joyfully in Maytime! Be joyful, ye old ones, Youthful figures! As you leapt about, So leap the young, Dancing in pairs To the sound of the shawms, Dancing in the round Joyfully in Maytime! Young and beautiful, Daughters and sons, Grandchildren no less Loveable as children; Dance in pairs To the sound of the shawms, Dance in the round Joyfully in Maytime! Young riff-raff, You are not judges; Young men, choose Before there is nothing left, Dance in pairs To the sound of the shawms, Dance in the round Joyfully in Maytime!
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Translated titles:"Maientanz" = "Maytime dance"
"Fröhlich im Maien" = "Joyful in Maytime"
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2013 by Sharon Krebs, (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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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Maientanz"
This text was added to the website: 2013-06-24
Line count: 40
Word count: 148