Songs
Der Goldschmiedsgesell
(1817)
D560
Der Goldschmiedsgesell
Es ist doch meine NachbarinEin allerliebstes Mädchen!Wie früh ich in der Werkstatt bin, Blick’ ich nach ihrem Lädchen.Zu Ring und Kette poch’ ich dannDie feinen goldnen Drächten.Ach! Denk ich, wann? und wieder, wann? Ist solch ein Ring für Kätchen?Ich feile; wohl zerfeil’ ich dannAuch manches goldne Drächten.Der Meister brummt, der harte Mann! Er merkt, es war das Lädchen.Und flugs wie nur der Handel still, Gleich greift sie nach dem Rädchen, Ich weiss wohl, was sie spinnen will: Es hofft, das liebe Mädchen.Das kleine Füsschen tritt und tritt;Da denk’ ich mir das Wädchen,Das Strumpfband denk’ ich auch wohl mit, Ich schenkt’s dem lieben Mädchen.Und nach den Lippen führt der Schatz Das allerfeinste Fädchen.O wär’ ich doch an seinem Platz,Wie küsst’ ich mir das Mädchen.
The Goldsmith's Apprentice
My neighbour isan enchanting girl.In the morning, at my workbench, I gaze at her little shop.Then I beat the fine gold threads into ring and chain.Ah! When? I think, and again, when will such a ring be for Kätchen?I file away, and at times I file right through many a golden thread.My master grumbles, unfeeling man!He sees it was that little shop.And as soon as her work is finished she reaches for her spinning-wheel.I well know what she intends to spin. She has her hopes, the darling girl.As her little foot keeps on working I think of her dainty calvesand of her garter;I gave it to the darling girl.My sweetheart takesthe finest thread to her lips.Ah, if only I could be in its place, how I should kiss her!
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Composer
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.
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Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Der Goldschmiedsgesell
The Goldsmith's Apprentice
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Composer
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.
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Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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