Mignon

Connais-tu le pays où dans l'immense plaine
Brille comme de l'or le fruit des orangers
Où sous des cieux bénis une amoureuse haleine
Recueille et porte au loin le parfum des vergers?
Ce pays où le jour plus radieux se lève
Le connais-tu, dis-moi le connais-tu?
C'est là, mon bien-aimé, que m'emporte mon rêve!
C'est là, que je voudrais m'en aller avec toi!

Connais-tu la maison toute blanche et posée
Dans les bosquets de myrte aimés des papillons
Et les champs lumineux où la fraiche rosée
Sème ses diamants dans l'herbe des sillons?
Ce pays où le jour plus radieux se lève
Le connais-tu, dis-moi le connais-tu?
C'est là, mon bien-aimé, que m'emporte mon rêve!
C'est là, que je voudrais m'en aller avec toi!

by Louis Gallet (1835-1898) [an adaptation]

a text in German by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) , no title, from Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Book III, Chapter 1 DUT RUS ENG ITA POL

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

by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) , "Mignon", 1871, published 1871.

by Ludwig Abeille (1761-1838) , "Sehnsucht nach Italien"
by Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820-1867) , "Mignon", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder für 4 Männerstimmen) no. 1. [four men's voices]
by Bror Beckman (1866-1922) , "Kennst du das Land?", 1906.
by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) , "Mignon", op. 75 no. 1 (1809), stanza 1.
by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885-1935) , "Mignon", 1907, stanza 1, from Jugendlieder.
by Carl Blum (1786-1844) , "Sehnsucht nach Italien", c1820.
by Leopold Damrosch (1832-1885) , "Mignon", op. 17 no. 2.
by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) , "Mignon", 1884, published 1889. [low voice and piano]
by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850-1900) , "Kennst du das Land?", 1871.
by Carl Gollmick (1796-1866) , "Lied der Mignon", c1828/9.
by Friedrich Götzloff , "Aus dem Wilhelm Meister", c1806.
by August Ferdinand Häser (1779-1844) , "Sehnsucht nach Italien", 1819.
by Moritz Hauptmann (1792-1868) , "Mignon", op. 37 no. 1, published 1852?
by Georg Jakob Ernst Häusler (c1760-1837) , "Kennst du das Land wo die Cytronen blühn?", 1799.
by Bernhard (Joseph) Klein (1793-1832) , "Mignonslied", published 1836. [voice and piano]
by Bernhard (Joseph) Klein (1793-1832) , "Mignon", op. 15 (Neun Lieder von Goethe) no. 8, published 1827/32. [voice and piano]
by Joseph Klein (1802-1862) , "Mignon", published 1836 [voice and piano], from Sechs Gedichte aus Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahren, von Goethe, no. 1.
by Nikolaus, Freiherr von Krufft (1779-1818) , "Kennst du das Land", published 1812.
by Huub de Lange (1955-) , "Mignon", published 2006 [SATB chorus and piano], from Myrte Lieder, no. 1.
by Leopold Lenz (1803-1862) , "Kennst du das Land", op. 12 no. 1, published 1832 [low soprano or baritone and piano], from Mignon der Harfner und Philine ein Cyclus von acht Gesaengen aus "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre", no. 1.
by Hélène Liebmann, née Riese (1796-1819+) , "Kennst du das Land?", op. 4, published 1811.
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Mignons Lied", S. 275 (1842), rev. 1848.
by Oswald Lorenz (1806-1889) , "Mignons Lied", published 1838. [voice and guitar]
by Franz Anton Maurer (1777-1803) , "Kennst du das Land" [voice and piano], from Drey Lieder, no. 1, München: In der Falterischen Musikhandlung
by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) , "Sehnsucht nach Italien", 1822.
by Ignaz von Mosel (1772-1844) , "Das Lied der Mignon", published 1823 [voice and piano], from Sechs Gedichte, no. 2.
by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836) , "Mignon", c1795-7 [voice and piano], sketch
by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) , "Italien", published 1795-96.
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Mignon", op. 91 no. 4, from Die Gedichte und das Requiem fur Mignon aus Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre", no. 4.
by Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) , "Kennst du das Land?", WoO. 92 (1903?)
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) , "Kennst du das Land? (Mignons Gesang)", D. 321 (1815), published 1832.
by Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) , "Kennst du das Land?", op. 79 (Liederalbum für die Jugend) no. 29.
by Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) , "Kennst du das Land?", op. 98a no. 1 (1849).
by Louis [Ludwig] Spohr (1784-1859) , "Mignons Lied", op. 37 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 1 (1816).
by Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) , "Mignon", 1830?
by Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774-1850) , "Mignons Sehnsucht", op. 54 no. 1 (1815?)
by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) , "Mignon: Kennst du das Land?", 1888, from Goethe-Lieder, no. 9.
by Erich J. Wolff (1874-1913) , "Mignon", op. 15 (Drei Lieder von Goethe) no. 1, published 1907. [voice and piano]
by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832) , "Kennst du das Land?", 1795.

by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) , "Pesn' Min'ony", op. 25 (Shest' romansov) no. 3.

by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) , "Connais-tu le pays", from the opera Mignon, no. ?, also set in Italian

by (Marie Eugène) Henri (Fouques) Duparc (1848-1933) , "Romance de Mignon", 1869.

by Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) , "Wezwanie do Neapolu"

by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) , "Non conosci il bel suol", from the opera Mignon, no. ?, also set in French

Date added to the website: 2003-11-13.

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