by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857)
Wie klag' ich's aus
Language: German (Deutsch)
»Wie klag' ich's aus Das Sterbegefühl, Das auflösend Durch die Glieder rinnt? Wie sing' ich's aus Das Werdegefühl, Das erlösend Dich, o Geist, anweht?« Es klagt', es sang Vernichtungsbang, Verklärungsfroh, Bis das Leben floh. Das ist des Schwanen Gesang!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Johann Senn. Innsbruck, in der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung. 1838, page 15
Note: Schubert received Senn's poem in handwritten form. Senn issued it later in the book mentioned above, with the footnote In Musik gesetzt von Fr. Schubert.
Authorship:
- by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857), "Schwanenlied" [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Schwanengesang", op. 23 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, D 744 (1822?), published 1823 [ voice, piano ], Sauer & Leidesdorf, VN 367, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Aleksi Reunanen) , "Joutsenlaulu", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant du cygne", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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