Auf geheimem Waldespfade

Auf geheimem Waldespfade
Schleich' ich gern im Abendschein
An das öde Schilfgestade,
Mädchen, und gedenke dein!

Wenn sich dann der Busch verdüstert,
Rauscht das Rohr geheimnisvoll,
Und es klaget und es flüstert,
Daß ich weinen, weinen soll.

Und ich mein', ich höre wehen
Leise deiner Stimme Klang,
Und im Weiher untergehen
Deinen lieblichen Gesang.

by Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850) [pseudonym] , no title, from Gedichte: Erstes Buch, in Sehnsucht, in Schilflieder, no. 3

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885-1935) , "Schilflied", 1907, from Sieben Frühe Lieder, no. 2.
by Otto Dresel (1826-1890) , "Schilflied", op. 1 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 2 (1846), published 1846.
by Robert Franz (1815-1892) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", op. 2 (Schilflieder) no. 1, published 1844.
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", A. 4 (c1905-9), published 1909 [medium voice and piano], from Five German Poems, no. 2.
by Julius Lammers (1829-1888) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", op. 7 (Schilf-Lieder) no. 3. [voice and piano]
by Henri Marteau (1874-1934) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", op. 31 (Fünf Schilflieder) no. 3, published 1925. [baritone, viola and piano]
by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869-1949) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", 188-?, note: fragment.
by Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", op. 2 (Drei Schilflieder) no. 3 (1905).
by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854-1912) , "Auf geheimem Waldespfade", op. 10 no. 3 (1875) [voice and piano], from Schilf-Lieder, no. 3, also set in Flemish (translated by E. Hiel)

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FRE French (Jacques Fournier)
ENG English [singable] (Louisa Loring Dresel)
ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue)

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