Meeresstille

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Ohne Regung ruht das Meer,
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) , "Meeresstille", 1795

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

by Conrad Baden (1908-1989) , "Meeres Stille", op. 2 (Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) no. 6 (1930-5).
by Victor Bendix (1851-1926) , "Meeressstille", 1870. [SATB chorus and piano]
by Gottfried Emil Fischer (1791-1841) , "Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt", published 1842.
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Meeresstille", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 (1878).
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "Meeresstille", A. 13 (c1905-11), published 1970 [medium voice and piano], from Four German Songs, no. 3.
by Johann Friedrich Kelz (1786-1862) , "Meerestille", published c1818. [soprano, tenor, and bass]
by Huub de Lange (1955-) , "Meeresstille", published 2004 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Drei Goethe Lieder, no. 2.
by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951) , "Meeresstille", op. 15 no. 7 (1908), from 12 Goethe-Lieder, no. 7.
by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) , "Meeres Stille", published 1809.
by Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) , "Meeres Stille", op. 6 (Drei Gesänge) no. 3. [low voice and piano]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) , "Meeres Stille", D. 215a (1815), published 1952.
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) , "Meeres Stille", op. 3 no. 2, D. 216 (1815), published 1821.
by Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774-1850) , "Meeresstille", op. 61 no. 3 (1815?)
by Erich J. Wolff (1874-1913) , "Meeresstille", op. 15 (Drei Lieder von Goethe) no. 3, published 1907. [voice and piano]

by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) , "Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt", op. 112, published 1815. [cantata for chorus and orchestra] [see full setting text]
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt", op. 31 (Sechs Gesänge für vier Männerstimmen) no. 3 [four-part men's chorus a cappella], Leipzig, Kistner [see full setting text]

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DUT Dutch [singable] (Lau Kanen)
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ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)
FRE French (Pierre Mathé)
FRE French (Antoine Pelletier)
ENG English [singable] (Daniel Platt)
ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff)
FRE French [singable] (John Bernhoff)

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