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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Die schlanke Wasserlilie

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG ENG FRE ITA

  Die schlanke Wasserlilie
Schaut träumend empor aus dem See;
Da grüßt der Mond herunter
Mit lichtem Liebesweh.

  Verschämt senkt sie [das]¹ Köpfchen
Wieder [hinab]² zu den Welln --
Da sieht sie zu ihren Füßen
Den armen [blassen]³ Geselln.

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Confirmed 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

¹ Pfitzner: "ihr"
² Pfitzner: "zurück"
³ omitted by Pfitzner

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 1833, from Neuer Frühling: Liederkreis von zwölf Gesängen von Heinrich Heine, no. 5 [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 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 Stschurovsky , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [sung text not yet checked]
by (Madame) Sybin , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie" [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 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 Mario Van Overeem , "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 15 [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 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 schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 5 (Lieder) no. 4 [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]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

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.
Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Samuel C. Colburn.
Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Gwendolyn Avril Coleridge-Taylor.
Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Denys H. H. Grayson.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) ; composed by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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):

ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , "The slender waterlily", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Lawrence Snyder , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 38

L'esvelt nenúfar

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

L'esvelt nenúfar, somiejant,
mira cap enlaire des del llac;
la lluna el saluda des de dalt
amb pena d'amor lluminosa.

Vergonyós, baixa el seu caparró
de nou cap a l'aigua - -
i veu als seus peus
la pobra, pàl·lida companya.

Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2013 by Salvador Pila, (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 Neuer Frühling, no. 15

This text was added to the website: 2013-10-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 41