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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation © by Sharon Krebs
Gekommen ist der Maye
Language: German (Deutsch)
Gekommen ist der [Maye]1, Die Blumen und Bäume blühn, Und durch die Himmelsbläue Die [rosigen]2 Wolken ziehn. Die [Nachtigallen]3 singen Herab aus [der laubigen]4 Höh, Die weißen Lämmer springen Im weichen grünen Klee. [Ich kann nicht singen und springen]5, Ich liege krank im Gras; Ich höre fernes Klingen, Mir träumt, ich weiß nicht was.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke, herausgegeben von Manfred Windfuhr, Band 2, Neue Gedichte, bearbeitet von Elisabeth Genton, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1983, pages 13-14.
1 Curschmann, Marek: "Maie"2 Curschmann: "ros'gen"
3 Curschmann: "lust'gen Vöglein"
4 Curschmann: "luftiger"
5 Curschmann: "Doch ich kann nicht springen und singen"
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822 [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 Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Der Mai", op. 13 (Frühlingsträume) no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Lyrische Traumbilder in Dichtungen, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820 - 1867), "Mailied", op. 15 (Sechs kleine Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Behm (1862 - 1946), "Im Mai", op. 10 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Boos von Waldeck , "Gekommen ist der Maie", from Fünfzig Lieder und Gesänge, no. 26 [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Gekommen ist der Maie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Frühlingslied", op. 1 (Sechs Gedichte für Tenor (oder Sopran)) no. 3, published 1854 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Johann Anton Dütsch (1823 - 1863), "Gekommen ist der Maie", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 9 (Acht Gesänge) no. 8, published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Gekommen ist der Maie", 1872, from Neun Gedichte von Heine, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Gekommen ist der Maie", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Frühlingzyklus, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Franck (1817 - 1893), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 34 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 (1861?), published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodor Heinrich Gerlach (1861 - 1940), "Ungestillte Sehnsucht", op. 9 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 1, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Zum ersten Mai", op. 6 no. 7, published 1849 [ voice and piano ], from Fliegende Blätter: Sieben Lieder, no. 7, Berlin, Challier und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. J. H. , "Gekommen ist der Maie", published 1876-1898 [ voice and piano ], from Ten songs, no. 1, London : Novello, Ewer; reprinted in Women composers: from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Hartmann (1836 - 1910), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 13 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by G. Hazslinsky , "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 5 (Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hedwig Hertz , "Gekommen ist der Maie", published 1867 [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder von Heinrich Heine, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Herz (b. 1869), "Gekommen ist der Maie", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Königsberg: Jakubowski [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Frühlingsankunft", op. 16, Heft 1 (Frühling und Liebe) no. 3, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], from Neuer Frühling: Liederkreis von zwölf Gesängen von Heinrich Heine, no. 3, Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Frühlingsankunft", op. 16, Heft 1 (Frühling und Liebe) no. 3, published 1834 [ voice and piano ], from Neuer Frühling: Liederkreis von zwölf Gesängen von Heinrich Heine, no. 3, Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caspar René Hirschfeld (b. 1965), "Mailied", op. 68 (Deutsche Lieder : Buch II für Gesang und Klavier) no. 4, published c2003 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Jahn (1813 - 1869), "Neuer Frühling", from Acht Lieder (zweite Sammlung), no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Gekommen ist der Maie", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung I, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Klein (1802 - 1862), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 71 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge von Heine und Goethe) no. 3, published 1826 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (1847 - 1902), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 32 (Drei Lieder für 3 Frauenstimmen mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1884 [ vocal trio for 3 female voices with piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emma Kodály (1863 - 1958), "Gekommen ist der Maie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henning Karl Adam von Koss (1855 - 1913), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 1 (Sieben Lieder) no. 4, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Halle, Karmrodt [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Krall , "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 14 (Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by K. Leszinsky (1886 - 1927), "Gekommen ist der Maie", from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Czesław Józef Marek (1891 - 1985), "Der neue Frühling", op. 1 no. 4 (1913), published 1977 [ medium voice or low voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder = Szesc pieśni, no. 4, also set in Polish (Polski) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795 - 1866), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 14 (Ein Frühlingsspiel in drei mal drei Gedichten), Heft 2 no. 1, published 1845 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Möhring (1816 - 1887), "Frühlingslied", op. 14 (Vier zweistimmige Lieder für Sopran und Alt mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1845 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Berlin, Trautwein und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by L. S. Müller , "Duett" [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franciscus Nagler (1873 - 1957), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 35 (Fünf lyrische Gesänge) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario van Overeem (1872 - 1946), "Gekommen ist der Maie", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Philipp , "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Platz , "Gekommen ist der Maie", from Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. von Popper , "Gekommen ist der Maie" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 17 (Acht Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier) no. 5 (1904), published 1909 [ low voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schwalm (1845 - 1912), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 3 (Drei Lieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1874 [ soprano and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Siebmann , "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 41 (Sechs Lieder von H. Heine), Heft 2 no. 1 [ alto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. Solbrück , "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 10 (Sechs zweistimmige Lieder für 2 Soprane mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1886 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Hamburg, Niemeyer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adam Teleki , "Gekommen ist der Mai" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Frühlingslied", op. 6 no. 2, published 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gedichte von Göthe, Heine, Uhland, Burns und W. Müller, no. 2, Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (1811 - 1886), "Gekommen ist der Maie", op. 18 (Liebeslust und Leid : Gedichte von Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Juliusz Wertheim (1880?1 - 1928), "Gekommen ist der Maie", from Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Basque (Euskara), a translation by Arregui ; composed by Pablo Sorozábal.
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- Also set in English, a translation by J. B. Townsend ; composed by Emeline M. Grant.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Georges Clerc (flourished c1881) , no title, appears in Mon videpoche, in 3. Traductions et variations d'après H. Heine, no. 30, Paris, Éd. P. Ollendorff, first published 1881 ; composed by André Messager.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Eugène Adénis-Colombeau (1854 - 1923) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bernardino Zendrini (1839 - 1879) ; composed by Benedetto Junck.
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- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Czesław Józef Marek (1891 - 1985) ; composed by Czesław Józef Marek.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Larionovich Mikhailov (1829 - 1865) , no title ; composed by César Antonovich Cui, Otto Johann Anton Dütsch, as Оттон Иванович Дютш, Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Pablo Sorozábal (1897 - 1988) ; composed by Pablo Sorozábal.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le mois de mai est arrivé", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 54
May has come
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
May has come, The flowers and the trees blossom, And through the blue of heaven The rosy clouds travel. The [nightingales]1 are singing Down from the [leafy]2 heights, The white lambs are leaping about In the soft green clover. [I cannot sing and leap]3, Ill I lie in the grass; I hear a distant ringing, I am dreaming I know not what.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Neuer Frühling" = "New spring"
"Mailied" = "May-song"
"Zum ersten Mai" = "For the first of May"
"Frühlingsankunft" = "Spring's arrival"
"Ungestillte Sehnsucht" = "Unassuaged yearning"
"Im Mai" = "In May"
"Duett" = "Duet"
"Der Mai" = "May"
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Gekommen ist der Maie" = "May has come"
"Der neue Frühling" = "The new spring"
2 Curschmann: "airy"
3 Curschmann: "But I cannot leap and sing"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2020 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822
This text was added to the website: 2020-03-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 62