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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation © by Elena María Accinelli
Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wandl' ich [in dem]1 Wald des Abends, In dem träumerischen Wald, Immer wandelt mir zur Seite Deine zärtliche Gestalt. Ist es nicht dein weißer Schleier? Nicht dein sanftes Angesicht? Oder ist es nur der Mondschein, Der durch Tannendunkel bricht? Sind es meine eignen Tränen Die ich leise rinnen hör'? Oder gehst du, Liebste, [wirklich]2 Weinend neben mir einher?
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lassen: "den" (further changes may exist not noted above); Zemlinsky: "im"
2 Zemlinsky: "weinend"
Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Verschiedene, in Seraphine, no. 1 [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- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", c1917, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nicolae Bretan (1887 - 1968), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald", published 198-? [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder zu Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Nikolaus Lenau, Rainer Maria Rilke, also set in English, also set in Romanian (Română) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Damrosch (1832 - 1885), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 16 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Seraphine", 1930, published 1930 [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Dürck , "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends ", from Sechs Lieder und Gesänge, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Im Walde", published 1844 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends ", 2006, published 2006 [ tenor and piano ], from Seraphine, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald", H. 76 (1866) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends ", 2007, published c2007-8 [ high voice and piano ], from Verschiedene : vol. 1, Seraphine-Hortense, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 39 (Sechs Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 4 (1867?), published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Gompertz (1859 - 1921), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from 12 Lieder, no. 4, London, Augener [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henrik Hennings (1848 - 1923), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald", from Sechs Lieder von H. Heine, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends" [ vocal trio for soprano, alto, and tenor a cappella ], from Fünf Terzette a cappella für Sopran, Alt und Tenor, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. Herwalt , "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konrad Heubner (1860 - 1905), "Seraphine (Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends)", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Koblenz, Falckenberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arno Kleffel (1840 - 1913), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 20 (Zwölf Lieder), Heft 2 no. 9, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emma Kodály (1863 - 1958), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Im Wald", published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 3, Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helen Agnes MacWhirter , "Seraphine", published 1903? [ contralto and piano ], from Two songs for contralto, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Eduard Marschner (1819 - 1853), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 18 (Sechs Lieder und Gesänge) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erwin E. Wilhelm Meier (b. 1937), "Wandl' ich", published c1996 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from "Sonnennachtigallen sind es ..." : sechs Gedichte aus "Seraphine" von Heinrich Heine, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905 - 1988), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", 1922, published 1922/3, from Zehn Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hendrik Christian van Oort (b. 1873), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 2 no. 1, published 190-? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Platz , "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", from Hundert Lieder, no. 82 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis Victor Franz Saar (1868 - 1937), "Waldeinsamkeit", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Wien, Lewy [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Samson , "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giovanni Sgambati (1841 - 1914), "Serafina" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Richard Gustav) Heinz Tiessen (1887 - 1971), "Seraphine", op. 1 (Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Winterberger (1834 - 1914), "Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 10, published 1862 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kōsaku Yamada (1886 - 1965), "Seraphine", published 1963 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Wandl' ich im Wald des Abends", 1892, from Zwei Lieder auf Texte von Heinrich Heine, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nicolae Bretan.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909) , no title, written c1876, appears in Pantéleïa, in 2. Sérénades, no. 1, Éd. Ollendorff, first published 1885 ; composed by Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Reynaldo Hahn.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Robert Caby.
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pietro Cimara, Giovanni Sgambati.
- Also set in Romanian (Română), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nicolae Bretan.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "When I wander in the evening woods", copyright © 2012
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Elena María Accinelli) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 58
Cuando paseo por el bosque al atardecer
Language: Spanish (Español) after the German (Deutsch)
Cuando paseo por el bosque al atardecer, Entre los árboles de ensueño, A mi lado siempre deambula Tu tierna silueta. ¿No es ese tu velo blanco? ¿No es ese tu suave rostro? ¿O acaso sea la luz de la luna que ilumina la oscuridad de los abetos? ¿Son mis propias lágrimas que escucho caer suavemente? ¿O de verdad eres tú, amada mía, que lloras junto a mí?
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2013 by Elena María Accinelli, (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 Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Verschiedene, in Seraphine, no. 1
This text was added to the website: 2013-10-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 67