by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht, Ein Stern, der süßen Trost herniederlacht Und neues Leben mir verspricht -- O, lüge nicht! Gleichwie das Meer dem Mond entgegenschwillt, So flutet meine Seele, froh und wild, Empor zu deinem holden Licht -- O, lüge nicht!
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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 288.
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Verschiedene, in Katharina, no. 1 [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 15 (Neuf Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 6, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "Katharine", published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine], no. 8, London, R. Cocks, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Bendel (1833 - 1874), "Mein Stern", op. 106 no. 2, published 1880 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Grüße aus schöner Zeit. Sechs Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques (Jacob) Blumenthal (1829 - 1908), "Ein schöner Stern", op. 101 (Two books of song), Heft 2 (In the sunshine) no. 1, published 1894, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yehezkel Braun (b. 1922), "Katharina", 2006, published 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from Spätlese aus Heinrich Heines Gedichte, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph Bruné , "Ein schöner Stern erscheint in meiner Nacht", op. 11 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Werschetz: F.J. Wettel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894), "O lüge nicht!", op. 1 (Sechs Gedichte von Heine und Sternau) no. 1, published 1853 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", published 1977 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834 - 1916), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 15 no. 1, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Dichtungen von Heinrich Heine, für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 2, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Will Eisenmann (1906 - 1992), "Ein schöner Stern" [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder 1939-1965, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht " [ voice and piano ], from Katharina, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann R. Fichten , "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 2 (Vier Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", 2007, published c2007-8 [ high voice and piano ], from Verschiedene : vol. 2, Clarisse-Tragödie, no. 19 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "O lüge nicht!", op. 25 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published 1856 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henrik Hennings (1848 - 1923), "Ein schöner Stern", op. 18 (Zwölf Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 11, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Kopenhagen, Prior (Leipzig, Kistner) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Hermann (1869 - 1912), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 8 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "O lüge nicht", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published 1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hol (1825 - 1904), "Ein schöner Stern", op. 42 (Drei Duette) no. 3, published 190-? [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz von Holstein (1826 - 1878), "O lüge nicht!", op. 42 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1880 [ soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz von Holstein (1826 - 1878), "O lüge nicht", published 1876 [ high voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 1 (Lieder), Heft 2 no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oswald Horlacher , "O lüge nicht", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. Jaeger , "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", from Album 1883, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Keller (1847 - 1930), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823 - 1903), "Ein schöner Stern", op. 103, published 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", 1937, from Fünf Heine-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Lewandowsky (1874 - 1906), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 16 no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 43 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1883 [ medium voice and piano ], Kassel, Voigt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Heinrich Stuckenschmidt (1819 - 1870), "O lüge nicht!", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Urspruch (1850 - 1907), "Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht", op. 6 (Liebeslieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine), Heft 1 no. 1 (1875), published 1876 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Ein Stern", published 1908, from Sechs Lieder [Six songs with German and English words], no. 1, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto von Zedlitz, Baron , "O lüge nicht", from Vier Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Jacques Blumenthal.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Cécile Sarah Hartog.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904) , "Katherine", subtitle: "Ein schöner Stem geht auf in meiner Nacht", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 209, first published 1887 ; composed by Frances Allitsen.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jules Ruelle (1834 - 1892) ; composed by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vsevolod Dmitrevich Kostomarov (1837 - 1865) , no title ; composed by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Karl Yulyevich Davidov.
- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Lyudmyla Oleksivna Vasylevska-Berezina (1861 - 1927) , no title ; composed by Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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