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by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Nachtviolenlied
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Nachtviolen, Nachtviolen!
Dunkle Augen, seelenvolle, -
Selig ist es sich vertiefen
In das sammtne Blau.

Grüne Blätter streben freudig
Euch zu hellen, euch zu schmücken;
Doch ihr schauet ernst und ahnend
In die laue Sommerluft.

Ja, so fesselt ihr den Dichter:
Mit erhabnen Wehmutsstrahlen
Trafet ihr sein treues Herz.

Und so blüht in stummen Nächten
Fort die heilige Verbindung.
Unaussprechlich, unbegriffen,
Und die Welt erreicht sie nicht.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Wien. Bey Friedrich Volke. 1824, page 121; and with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Neue Sammlung. Aus dessen Nachlasse mit Biographie und Vorwort herausgegeben von Ernst Freih. v. Feuchtersleben. Wien, 1843. Verlag von Ignaz Klang, Buchhändler, page 214.


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

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Set in a modified version by Franz Peter Schubert.


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 66