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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 392.

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Der Asra", appears in Romanzero, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Historien, no. 15 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Jacob Bachmann (1846 - 1905), "Der Asra", published 1889 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Leonard Blake (b. 1936), "Der Asra", published 1981 [ high voice and instrumental ensemble (11 instruments) ], from From the mattress grave : a cycle of twelve songs to poems by Heine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Leonard Blake (b. 1936), "Der Asra", published 1985 [ baritone, oboe, and piano ], from Five Heine Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Leonard Blake (b. 1936), "Der Asra", published 1988 [ baritone, oboe, and string quartet ], from Six Heine Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Leonard Blake (b. 1936), "Der Asra", published 1978, from Nine Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Brandes (1824 - 1871), "Der Asra (Täglich geht die wunderschöne Sultanstochter) ", op. 5 (Vier Lieder ) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Der Asra", published 1927 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Eberhardt (1855 - 1922), "Der Asra", op. 16 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferdinand Oskar Eichberg (1845 - 1898), "Der Asra", op. 5 (Drei Gedichte) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Der Asra", op. 41 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Der Asra", 1872, manuscript missing [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Der Asra", op. 20 no. 4, published 1900, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lukas Haug (b. 1921), "Der Asra", published 1977 [ duet for 2 voices and piano ], from Vierzehn Lieder nach alten Texten, no. 5, in the section Von der Liebe [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Hill (1838 - 1902), "Der Asra", op. 29, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Pohle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Der Asra", op. 116 (Acht Gedichte von H. Heine für S., A., T. und B.), Heft 1 no. 2, published 1865 [ SATB chorus ], Bremen, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard Hoffschläger , "Der Asra" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Christian Frederik Emil Horneman (1840 - 1906), "Asra", in Lieder-Album, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jindrich z Albestu Kaan (1852 - 1926), "Der Asra: Lied von Heine" [ voice and harmonium ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Guy de Kervéguen, Vicomte (1857 - 1896), "Der Asra", published 1882, from Trois Lieder : sur des poésies de H. Heine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Der Asra", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung III, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801 - 1878), "Der Asra", 1870-1880 [ voice and piano ], from Sånger och Visor vid Pianoforte. Efterlemnade Sånger, no. 199 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikita Loginovich Linev (1846 - 1910), "Der Asra", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Der Asra", op. 133 (1860), published 1867 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898), as W. A. Rémy, "Der Asra", op. 4 (Vier Gesänge für 1 Alt-Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1874 [ alto and piano ], Wien, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus (1827 - 1896), "Der Asra", op. 9 (Romanzen und Balladen. Heft 2) no. 1, published 1853 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Friedländer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard de Moulin , "Der Asra", op. 3 (Drei Gedichte von H. Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Otto Nodnagel (1870 - 1909), "Der Asra", op. 36 (Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Der Asra", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from 2 orientaliska fantasier, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Renner , "Der Asra", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert de Roos (1907 - 1976), "Der Asra", 1975, from Drei romantische Lieder (H. Heine), no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bertrand Roth (1854 - 1938), "Der Asra", op. 12 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Der Asra", op. 32 (Sechs Lieder von Heine) no. 6, published 1856? [ voice and piano ], also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolay Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (1853 - 1922), "Der Asra", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 3, Hamburg, Rahter [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frederick Stock (1872 - 1942), "Der Asra", published 19-? [sung text not yet checked]
• by Moritz Weyermann (1832 - 1888), "Der Asra", op. 11 (Zwei Balladen von H. Heine) no. 2, published 1869 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann Wichmann (1824 - 1905), "Der Asra", op. 43 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Ries [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov (1865 - 1927), "Der Asra", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Baptist Zerlett (1859 - 1935), "Der Asra", op. 30, published 1891 [ voice, violin (or cello or horn) and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Henry C. F. Castleman.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George Coleman Gow.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Henry Kimball Hadley.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , "Невольник", written 1856 ; composed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Nikita Loginovich Linev, Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov.
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• Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Un asra" ; composed by Montserrat Campmany i Cortés.
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• Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , "The Asra", appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
• ENG English [singable] (Peter Palmer) , "The Asra", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Asra", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 81