Bitte

Weil' auf mir, du dunkles Auge,
übe deine ganze Macht,
ernste, milde [träumerische]1,
unergründlich süße Nacht.
Nimm mit deinem Zauberdunkel
diese Welt von hinnen mir,
daß du über meinem Leben
einsam schwebest für und für.

by Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850) [pseudonym] , "Bitte", from Gedichte: Erstes Buch, in Sehnsucht

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

by Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820-1867) , "Bitte", op. 12 (Eine Frühlingsliebe), Heft 2 no. 5, published 1850. [voice and piano]
by Natanael Berg (1879-1957) , "Bitte", from Traumgewalten und andere Gedichte, no. 2.
by Gustav Bergmann (1837-1892) , "Bitte", op. 32 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1883. [SATB chorus]
by Jacques (Jacob) Blumenthal (1829-1908) , "Bitte" [voice and piano]
by Willy Burkhard (1900-1955) , "Bitte", op. 6 (Vier Lieder) no. 1.
by Leopold Damrosch (1832-1885) , "Bitte", op. 5 no. 1.
by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850-1900) , "Bitte", H. 100 (1868).
by Alexander von Fielitz (1860-1930) , "Bitte", op. 11 no. 3.
by Hans Fleischer (1896-1981) , "Weil' auf mir, du dunkles Auge", op. 54 (6 Lieder für Alt, obligate Violine und Klavier) no. 3 (1927). [alto, violin obbligato, and piano]
by Robert Franz (1815-1892) , "Bitte", op. 9 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3 (1860?)
by Hermann (Gustav) Goetz (1840-1876) , "Bitte", op. 3 (Drei Lieder von Lenau, Uhland, und Eichendorff) no. 2 (1861). [voice and piano]
by Julius Otto Grimm (1827-1903) , "Bitte", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published 1868. [low voice and piano]
by Adolf Hoffmann (fl. 1884-1887) , "Gebet", op. 5 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 3, published 1844.
by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "Weil' auf mir", 1902, note: also set in English
by Robert Kahn (1865-1951) , "Bitte", 1879. [women's chorus]
by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823-1903) , "Bitte", published 1875.
by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869) , "Das dunkle Auge"
by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) , "Bitte", op. 7 no. 5.
by Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861-1932) , "Bitte", op. 29 (Drei Lieder) no. 3.
by Emanuel Moór (1863-1931) , "Bitte", op. 13 (Sechzehn Lieder) no. 4.
by Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) , "Bitte", op. 13 (Drei Lieder) no. 1, published 1877.
by Carl Orff (1895-1982) , "Bitte"
by Max Reger (1873-1916) , "Bitte", 1890?1.
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Bitte", c1874, published 1875 [voice and piano], from Sechs Lieder, no. 2, Leipzig, Senff
by Curt Sachs , "Bitte"
by Léandre Schlegel (1844-1913) , "Bitte", op. 20 (Deutsche Liebeslieder) no. 6 (1900), from Deutsche Liebeslieder, no. 6.
by Alfred Schlenker (1876-1950) , "Bitte", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Walter Schulthess (1894-1971) , "Bitte"
by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853-1918) , "Weil' auf mir, du dunkles Auge", op. 16 no. 2 (1886), from An Eine : fünf Lieder, no. 2.
by Hermann Suter (1870-1926) , "Bitte", op. 2 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1.
by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803-1883) , "Bitte", op. 43 no. 2 (1844-51?)
by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863-1942) , "Bitte", op. 16 no. 6, published 1891.

by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "On me reposing", 1902, note: also set in German

by John Ford Barbour , "Stay with me, o eyes so tender"

ENG English (Emily Ezust)
ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue)
FRE French (Pierre Mathé)

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