Ins stille Land

Ins stille Land!
Wer leitet uns hinüber?
Schon wölkt sich uns der Abendhimmel trüber,
Und immer trümmervoller wird der Strand.
Wer leitet uns mit sanfter Hand
Hinüber! Ach! hinüber
Ins stille Land?

Ins stille Land!
Zu euch, ihr freien Räume
Für die Veredlung! zarte Morgenträume
Der schönen Seelen! künft'gen Daseins Pfand
Wer treu des Lebens Kampf bestand,
Trägt seiner Hoffnung Keime
Ins stille Land.

Ach Land! ach Land!
Für alle Sturmbedrohten.
Der mildeste von unsers Schicksals Boten
Winkt uns, die Fackel umgewandt,
Und leitet uns mit sanfter Hand
Ins Land der großen Toten
Ins stille Land.

by Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis (1762-1834)

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

by Jan Bedřich (Johann Friedrich) Kittl (1806-1868) , "Ins stille Land", op. 4 no. 6 (183-?), stanza 1.
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) , "Ins stille Land", D. 403 (1816), published 1845.

by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880-1956) , "Into the Silent Land", published 1919. [partsong for mixed voices a cappella]
by John Blockley (1800-1882) , "The Silent Land" [voice and piano], also published as a duet
by Eaton Faning (1850-1927) , "Song of the Silent Land", published 1896. [voices with ad lib accompaniment: violin, violoncello, harp, organ]
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Into the Silent Land", published 1886, from Music Sung by the Alumni at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of Harvard University November Seventh 1886
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Into the Silent Land", published 1889. [four-part women's voices a cappella]
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Into the Silent Land", published 1897. [four-part mixed voices a cappella]
by Alfred Robert Gaul (1837-1913) , "The Silent Land", op. 21 no. 1. [partsong for SATB a cappella]
by D. Cyril Jenkins , "Song of the Silent Land", published 1920. [symphonic hymn for chorus and orchestra]
by Edwin Matthew Lott (1836-?) , "Into the Silent Land" [voice and piano]
by Harry Alexander Matthews (1879-1973) , "Song of the Silent Land", published 1903. [cantata for tenor, soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra]
by Frederic Henry Pease (1839-1909) , "Song of the Silent Land", published 1882.
by Edward Davey Rendall (?-1920) , "Into the Silent Land" [duet: soprano, bass or tenor, and piano], from Five Duets for Soprano and Baritone or Tenor
by Francis (Frank) Romer (1810-1889) , "The Silent Land" [voice and piano]
by Hermann Strachauer , "Song of the Silent Land", published 1860. [cantata]
by Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) , "The Silent Land", op. 16 no. 1. [voice and piano]

DUT Dutch [singable] (Lau Kanen)

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