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Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au, Die Lüfte, sie wehen so milde, so lau, Geschwätzig die Bäche nun rinnen. Die Schwalbe, die kehret zum wirtlichen Dach, Sie baut sich so emsig ihr bräutlich Gemach, Die Liebe soll wohnen da drinnen. Sie bringt sich geschäftig von kreuz und von quer Manch weicheres Stück zu dem Brautbett [hierher]1, Manch wärmendes Stück für die Kleinen. Nun wohnen die Gatten beisammen so treu, Was Winter geschieden, verband nun der Mai, Was liebet, das weiß er zu einen. Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au. Die Lüfte, sie wehen so milde, so lau. Nur ich kann nicht ziehen von hinnen. Wenn alles, was liebet, der Frühling vereint, Nur unserer Liebe kein Frühling erscheint, Und Tränen sind all ihr Gewinnen.
1 some editions have "hieher"; the spelling can be found as well in Tonkünstler-Versammlung zu Weimar, zugleich als Vorfeier zu Ludwig van Beethoven's 100jährigen Geburtsfeste, 1870, page 24.
Authorship:
- by Alois (Isidor) Jeitteles (1794 - 1858) [author's text not yet checked 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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au", op. 98 no. 5, from An die ferne Geliebte, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Torna el mes de maig, la prada plena de flors", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De mei komt terug weer, het veld bloeit vol pracht", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Lynn Thompson) , "May returns, the meadow blooms", copyright © 1997, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Angelika Frenzel) , "Le mois de mai revient et les prés sont en fleurs", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Torna maggio, il prato è in fiore", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Sugrįžta gegužis, pražysta lanka", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , "Ha vuelto mayo, florecen las praderas", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 127
Torna maggio, il prato è in fiore. Le aurette spirano dolci e tiepide. Chiacchierando scorrono ora i ruscelli. La rondine torna al suo tetto ospitale, costruisce svelta la sua camera nuziale, l'amore vivrà là dentro. Si dà da fare cercando in giro di qua e di là, qualcosa di morbido per il letto nuziale, qualcosa di caldo per i piccoli. Ora vivono gli sposi vicini e fedeli, ciò che l'inverno ha separato, riunisce ora maggio, ciò che ama, sa metterlo insieme. Torna maggio, il prato è in fiore. Le aurette spirano dolci e tiepide. Io solo non posso staccarmi da qui. Se tutto ciò che ama la primavera lo unisce, solo al nostro amore non splende primavera e le lacrime sono tutto ciò che ha.
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2006 by Amelia Maria Imbarrato, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Alois (Isidor) Jeitteles (1794 - 1858)
This text was added to the website: 2006-01-11
Line count: 18
Word count: 125