Early, when the cock crows

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by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Früh, wann die Hähne kräh'n

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE FRE ITA SPA

Früh, [wann]¹ die Hähne kräh'n,
[Eh']² die Sternlein [verschwinden]³,
Muß ich am [Herde stehn]⁴,
Muß Feuer zünden.

Schön ist der [Flammen]⁵ Schein,
[Es]⁶ springen die Funken.
Ich schaue so [drein]⁷,
In Leid versunken.

Plötzlich, da kommt es mir,
Treuloser Knabe,
Daß ich die Nacht von dir
Geträumet habe.

Träne auf Träne dann
Stürzet hernieder;
So kommt der Tag heran -
O ging' er wieder!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• B. Bock • F. Draeseke • G. van Eijken • J. Feyhl • W. Killmayer • F. Lachner • G. Molitor • H. Pfitzner • K. Reinecke • R. Schumann • P. Viardot-García • J. Wetzel • H. Wolf • M. Zenger

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Confirmed with Eduard Mörike, Gedichte, Dramatisches, Erzählendes, Zweite, erweiterte Auflage, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachf., 1961, pages 61-62.

¹ Bock, Feyhl, Zenger: "wenn"; Senger: "eh' " (further changes may exist not noted above).
² Zenger: "Wenn"
³ Schumann, Pfitzner (SJ5), Wolf: "schwinden"
⁴ van Eijken, Schumann: "Heerde steh'n"
⁵ Schumann, Wetzel: "Flamme"
⁶ Reinecke: "Hell"
⁷ Molitor, Reinecke, Schumann, Pfitzner (SJ5), Wolf, Zenger: "darein"

Text Authorship:

by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Das verlassene Mägdlein" [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 Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (1859 - 1937), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 57 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Die Verlassene ", op. 70 (24 Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Beglteitung des Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Bandisch , "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Eulenburg [sung text not yet checked]
by Jürg Baur (b. 1918), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", published 1994 [ alto and piano ], from Einsame Lieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rupert Bawden (b. 1958), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", 1992, published 1992 [ soprano, harp and four cellos ], from Mörike-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolf Blomberg , "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 8 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Bonn, Cohen [sung text not yet checked]
by Berta Bock (1857 - 1945), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 8 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Fritz Schuberth Jr. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Carl Bohm (1844 - 1920), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 326 (Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme -- für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 67, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
by (Karl Friedrich) Gustav Brah-Müller (1839 - 1878), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 24 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Welke Rosen: Vier Lieder, no. 2, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
by Ignaz Brüll (1846 - 1907), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 5 (Zwölf Gesänge), Heft 2 (Drei Gesänge für mittlere Stimme) no. 1 (186-?), published 1870 [ medium voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 21 (Fünf Lieder im ernsten Ton) no. 4 (1907) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Humphreys Dayas (1863 - 1903), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 4 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 2 no. 10 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Das verlassene Mägd'lein", op. 2 (Lieder), Heft 2 (Cypressen) no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hermann Drechsler (1861 - 1935), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 13 no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Eggers (1835 - 1861), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 2 no. 3, published 1857 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Ehlert (1825 - 1884), "Am Feuer", op. 2 (Fünf Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Guttentag [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerrit Jan van Eijken (1832 - 1879), "Das verlassene Mägdlein" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 12 (Acht Gesänge) no. 5, published 1866 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
by Johannes Feyhl (1833 - 1905), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 4 (Die sieben Schwaben) no. 5, note: the score gives the composer's name only as "Joh. Feyhl"; but since Johann Jacob Feyhl was born in the same Bundesland as the publisher for this opus, we think this is the same person [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Fiebach (1851 - 1937), "Das verlassene Mädchen", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], from An Susanne. Lieder der Liebe für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 26, Berlin, (Sulzbach) [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 109 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 6 (1939) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "In Leid versunken", op. 27 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1856 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm Fritze (1842 - 1881), "Das verlassene Mädchen", op. 19 (Lieder und Gesänge (5. Folge) für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hientzsch [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927), "Das verlass'ne Mägdlein", op. 26 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Fürst , "Früh', wenn die Hähne kräh'n", op. 10 (Drei Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], Wien, Lewy [sung text not yet checked]
by Hermann (Gustav) Goetz (1840 - 1876), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 12 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianoforte) no. 5 (1868-76), published 1876 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848 - 1906), "Früh wenn die Hähne krähen", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 20, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Gutheil (1868 - 1914), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Hennig (b. 1964), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", 1992/3 [ soprano and piano ], from Neun kurze Lieder nach Gedichten von Eduard Mörike, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1806 - 1872), "Früh", op. 8 (Drei Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran oder Bariton mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1846 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone or tenor and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Das verlassene Mädchen", op. 7 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Friedrich Hinrichs (1820 - 1892), "Die Verlassene", op. 7 (Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianofortebegleitung), Heft 2 (Zehn Lieder) no. 7, published 1879 [ mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolf Hoffmann (flourished 1884-1887), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 5 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Dörffel [sung text not yet checked]
by Jenő Hubay (1858 - 1937), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 8 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3, published 1890 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Juon (1872 - 1940), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 2 (Zwei schlichte Lieder) no. 1 (1895) [ voice and piano ], Robert Lienau Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", 2003/4, published 2014, first performed 2004 [ tenor and piano ], from Mörike-Lieder für Tenor und Klavier, no. 10, Mainz, London, Berlin, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Tokyo, Toronto: Schott Music [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Klemperer (1885 - 1973), "Das verlassene Mägdlein" [sung text not yet checked]
by Henning Karl Adam von Koss (1855 - 1913), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 4 (Vier Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1887 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Glas [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Kurz , "Das verlassene Mägdelein", subtitle: "Schwäbische Volksweise", published 1900 [ men's chorus ], Berlin, Kaun [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 134 (6 Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1868 [ alto and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 54 (Fünf Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Lewandowsky (1874 - 1906), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 6 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 2, note: source gives composer only as "M. Lewandowsky" - may not be correct full name [sung text not yet checked]
by Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861 - 1932), "Das verlassene Mädchen", op. 7 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Gregor Molitor (1867 - 1926), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Elf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, München, Lederer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johann Joseph David Naret-Koning (1838 - 1905), "Das verlass'ne Mägdlein", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Mannheim, Sohler & Donecker [sung text not yet checked]
by Georg Nellius (1891 - 1952), "Früh wann die Hähne krähn", op. 4 (Sechs Männerchöre) no. 3 (1919) [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 30 (4 Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", 1887, published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Jugendlieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung, no. 5, Ries & Erler, Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]
by Martin Plüddemann (1854 - 1897), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, München, Schmid & Janke [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Pressel (1827 - 1890), "Früh, wann die Hähne krähen", published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 19 (Sechs Lieder und Gesänge) no. 4 (1849), published 1850 [ low voice and piano ], Leipzig, Schuberth & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 12 (6 Lieder) no. 3, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduard Rommel , "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 4 (Sechs Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published [1858] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Otto Scherzer (1821 - 1886), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder für Tenor (oder Sopran) mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 6, published 1887 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Grunow [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", 1993 [ female voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Manfred Schlenker (1926 - 2023 ), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", published 2006 [ vocal quintet ], from Zehn Mörike-Burlesken für fünf Stimmen, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 17 (Sechs Lieder für Mezzosopran mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Stuttgart, Ebner [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Heinz Scholtys (1900 - 1945), "Das verlassene Mägdlein" [ voice and piano ], from 94 Lieder, no. 34 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 64 (Romanzen und Balladen für Singstimme und Klavier (Heft 4)) no. 2 (1847), published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 91 (Romanzen für Frauenstimmen (Heft 2)) no. 4 (1849), published 1851 [ vocal quartet for 2 sopranos and 2 altos with piano ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo von Senger (1835 - 1892), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 7 (Fünfunddreißig Lieder und Gesänge), Heft 3 no. 12, published 1868 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo von Senger (1835 - 1892), "Das verlassene Mägdelein", op. 7 (Fünfunddreißig Lieder und Gesänge), Heft 3 no. 2, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Zürich, Hug [sung text not yet checked]
by (Carl Theodor) Oskar Ulmer (1883 - 1966), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 6 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 (1902) [sung text not yet checked]
by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", VWV: 1171 (1865) [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Julie von Waldburg-Wurzach, Fürstin (b. 1841), "Die Verlassne", op. 33 (Lieder-Album für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Bösendorfer [sung text not yet checked]
by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Das verlassene Mägdlein" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Wickenhauser (1867 - 1936), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 4 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Robolsky [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", from Mörike-Lieder, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vally Wolff-Kownačka , "Früh wenn die Hähne kräh'n", published 1878 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 5, Hannover, Nagel [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Zenger (1837 - 1911), "Das verlassene Mägdlein", op. 3 (Acht kleine Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 1, published c1865 [ voice and piano ], Stuttgart: Ebner [sung text checked 1 time]

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het in de steek gelaten meisje", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "The abandoned maid", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La petite femme abandonnée", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , "La petite servante délaissée", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Early, when the cock crows

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Early, when the cock crows,
Before the stars disappear,
I must stand at the hearth;
I must light the fire.

Beautiful is the blaze of the flames;
[The sparks fly]¹.
I gaze into the fire,
Sunk in grief.

Suddenly, it comes to me,
Unfaithful boy,
That last night
I dreamed of you.

Tears upon tears then 
Pour down;
So the day comes -
O would it were gone again!

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Translated titles:
"Das verlassene Mägdlein" = "The abandoned maiden"
"Die Verlassene" = "The abandoned one"
¹ Reinecke: "Bright fly the sparks"

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Word count: 68

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