Das Ständchen

Was wecken aus dem Schlummer mich
  für süße Klänge doch?
O Mutter, sieh, wer mag es sein
  in später Stunde noch.

"Ich höre nichts, ich sehe nichts,
  o schlummre fort so lind!
Man bringt dir keine Ständchen jetzt,
  du armes krankes Kind."

Es ist nicht irdische Musik,
  was mich so freudig macht,
mich rufen Engel mit Gesang,
  o Mutter, gute Nacht.

by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862) , "Das Ständchen", from Balladen und Romanzen, in Sterbeklänge, no. 1

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

by Francis Edward Bache (1833-1858) , "Ständchen", op. 16 (Six songs) no. 6.
by (August Joseph) Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836) , "Ständchen", op. 10 no. 5 (1827-36?)
by Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich (1803-1836) , "Das Ständchen", published 1832.
by Edward Hartenfels , "Das Ständchen"
by Georg Andreas Henkel (1805-1871) , "Was wecken aus dem Schlummer mich", op. 22 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5. [voice and piano]
by Robert Kahn (1865-1951) , "Ständchen", op. 16 (Acht Gesänge und Lieder) no. 4 (1892), published 1892. [voice and piano]
by Jan Bedřich (Johann Friedrich) Kittl (1806-1868) , "Ständchen", op. 13 no. 3.
by Josephine Lang (1815-1880) , "Das Ständchen", op. 43 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 2 (1878).
by Leopold Lenz (1803-1862) , "Ständchen", op. 10 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 5, published 1830. [voice and piano]
by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869) , "Das Ständchen", op. 9, Heft 2 no. 4 (1826), published 1828.
by Friedrich Niggli (1875-1959) , "Das Ständchen", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6.
by Hans Paumgartner , "Das Ständchen", published 1890 [woman's voice and piano], from Drei Gedichte, no. 1.
by Heinrich Proch (1809-1878) , "Das Ständchen", op. 215 no. 1, published 1875 [voice and piano], from Sterbeklänge, no. 1.
by Louis [Ludwig] Spohr (1784-1859) , "Das Ständchen", op. 105 no. 3 (1838).

ENG English (Sharon Krebs)
FRE French (Pierre Mathé)

Date added to the website: 2003-10-13.

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