Liebst du um Schönheit

Liebst du um Schönheit,
O nicht mich liebe! 
Liebe die Sonne,
Sie trägt ein gold'nes Haar!

Liebst du um Jugend,
O nicht mich liebe!
Liebe den Frühling,
Der jung ist jedes Jahr! 

Liebst du um Schätze,
O nicht mich liebe. 
Liebe die Meerfrau,
[Die]1 hat viel Perlen klar.

Liebst du um Liebe,
O ja, mich liebe!
Liebe mich immer, 
Dich lieb' ich immerdar.

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¹ Mahler, C. Schumann: "Sie"

Authorship

by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) , no title

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

by César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918) , "Liebst du um Schönheit?", op. 37 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1887? [voice and piano], St. Petersburg: A. Büttner / Hamburg: D. Rahter
by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) , "Liebst du um Schönheit", 1901-2, published 1905, from Fünf Rückertlieder, no. 2.
by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824-1910) , "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 (1844/5). [voice and piano]
by Hermann Reutter (1900-1985) , "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 54 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1941.
by Clara Schumann, née Wieck (1819-1896) , "Liebst du um Schönheit", op. 12 (Liebesfrühling) no. 4 (1841), published 1841. [voice and piano]

by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) , "O net! Za krasotu ty ne ljubi menja", 1886-7 [high voice and piano], from Dve pesni, no. 1, unfinished

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ENG English (David Kenneth Smith)
SWE Swedish (Yvonne Helander)
POR Portuguese (Maria Guimarães)
ITA Italian (Amelia Maria Imbarrato)
SPA Spanish (Elena María Accinelli)
FRE French (Pierre Mathé)

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If you love for beauty

If you love for beauty,
Oh, do not love me!
Love the sun, 
She has golden hair!

If you love for youth,
Oh, do not love me!
Love the spring;
It is young every year!

 If you love for treasure,
Oh, do not love me!
 Love the mermaid;
 She has many clear pearls!

If you love for love,
 Oh yes, do love me!
Love me ever,
 I'll love you evermore!

Authorship

Translation from German to English copyright © 1996 by David Kenneth Smith, dksmith (AT) geneva.edu, http://www.geneva.edu/~dksmith/clara/schumann.html, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. Please contact the copyright-holder when requesting permission to reprint.

a text in German by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) , no title RUS POR SWE ITA FRE FIN SPA

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.