Sommerlied, Op. 50, No. 3 (Felix Mendelssohn)

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  • (Posted 2018-04-02)  CPDL #49250:     
Editor: Nikolaus Hold (submitted 2018-04-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 88 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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General Information

Title: Sommerlied, Op. 50 No. 3
Work: Sechs Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor, Op. 50
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Lyricist: Johann Georg Jacobi

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1837
    2nd published: 1863 in Sammlung von Volksgesängen für den Männerchor (Ignaz Heim), no. 181a
Description: The lyrics appeared in 1776 anonymously in the 7. volume of Jacobi's Iris (Vierteljahresschrift für Frauenzimmer). It was attributed in 1779 to Goethe, who held it subsequently for his property, but in 1784 claimed for Jacobi. In the end, the authorship is not quite sure.

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Original text and translations

German.png German text

Wie Feld und Au
so blinkend im Tau!
Wie perlenschwer
die Pflanzen umher!
Wie durch's Gebüsch
die Winde so frisch!
Wie laut im hellen Sonnenstrahl
die süßen Vöglein allzumal!

Ach aber da,
wo Liebchen ich sah,
im Kämmerlein,
so nieder und klein,
so rings bedeckt,
der Sonne versteckt,
wo blieb die Erde weit und breit
mit aller ihrer Herrlichkeit!