Songs
Die Einsame
(1895)
Op. 9 no.2
Die Einsame
Wär’s dunkel, ich läg’ im Walde,Im Walde rauscht’s so sacht,Mit ihrem SternenmantelBedeckt mich da die Nacht,Da kommen die Bächlein gegangen,Ob ich schon schlafen tu?Ich schlaf’ nicht, ich hör’ noch langDen Nachtigallen zu,Wenn die Wipfel über mir schwanken,Es klinget die ganze Nacht,Das sind im Herzen die Gedanken,Die singen, wenn Niemand wacht.
The lonely woman
Were it dark, I’d lie in the forest,The forest murmurs so softly,With her cloak of starsThe night covers me there,The brooklets steal up and ask:If I’m not already asleep.I do not sleep, for long yet I’ll listenTo the nightingales,When the treetops sway above me,They sound the whole night through,They are the heart’s own thoughtsThat sing when no one’s awake.
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
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Composer
Poet
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany.
Eichendorff first became famous for his novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing) and his poems. The Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing, a typical romantic novella, whose main themes are wanderlust and love. The protagonist, the son of a miller, rejects his father's trade and becomes a gardener at a Viennese palace where he subsequently falls in love with the local duke's daughter. As, with his lowly status, she is unattainable for him, he escapes to Italy - only to return and learn that she is the duke's adopted daughter, and thus within his social reach. With its combination of dream world and realism, Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing is considered to be a high point of Romantic fiction. One critic stated that "Eichendorff’s 'Good-For-Nothing' is the "personification of love of nature and an obsession with hiking." Thomas Mann called Eichendorff's Good-For-Nothing a combination of "the purity of the folk song and the fairy tale."
Many of Eichendorff's poems were first published as integral parts of his novellas and stories, where they are often performed in song by one of the protagonists. The novella Good-For-Nothing alone contains 54 poems.
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- 23 Oct 2016: Mastercourse 2016 (for T&Ts)
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Die Einsame
The lonely woman
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Poet
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany.
Eichendorff first became famous for his novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing) and his poems. The Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing, a typical romantic novella, whose main themes are wanderlust and love. The protagonist, the son of a miller, rejects his father's trade and becomes a gardener at a Viennese palace where he subsequently falls in love with the local duke's daughter. As, with his lowly status, she is unattainable for him, he escapes to Italy - only to return and learn that she is the duke's adopted daughter, and thus within his social reach. With its combination of dream world and realism, Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing is considered to be a high point of Romantic fiction. One critic stated that "Eichendorff’s 'Good-For-Nothing' is the "personification of love of nature and an obsession with hiking." Thomas Mann called Eichendorff's Good-For-Nothing a combination of "the purity of the folk song and the fairy tale."
Many of Eichendorff's poems were first published as integral parts of his novellas and stories, where they are often performed in song by one of the protagonists. The novella Good-For-Nothing alone contains 54 poems.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
- 23 Oct 2016: Mastercourse 2016 (for T&Ts)
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