by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Translation by Ernst Eckstein (1845 - 1900)
Solemnly, mournfully
Language: English
Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers, [And put]1 out the light; Toil comes with the morning, And rest with the night. Dark grow the windows, And quenched is the fire; Sound fades into silence,-- All footsteps retire. No voice in the [chambers]2, No sound in the hall! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all! The book is completed, And closed, like the day; And the hand that has written it Lays it away. Dim grow its fancies; Forgotten they lie; Like coals in the ashes, They darken and die. Song sinks into silence, The story is told, The windows are darkened, The hearth-stone is cold. Darker and darker The black shadows fall; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all.
R. Stöhr sets stanza 1
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Stöhr: "Put"
2 Stöhr: "chamber"
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Curfew", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1845 [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 Thomas Anderton (1836 - 1903), "Curfew" [ satb chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by W. H. Bentley , "Curfew", op. 2 (Six songs) no. 6 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francesco Berger (1834 - 1933), "Curfew" [ boys' chorus or girls' chorus and piano ], from Two-Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beta , "Curfew", from Gems of Longfellow [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Blockley (1800 - 1882), "Curfew", published >>1854 [ voice (or vocal duet) and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "The curfew", published 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giuseppe Dinelli , "Curfew" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodore Distin (1823 - 1893), "No sound in the hall" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. J. Finck , "Curfew", published >>1867 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881 - 1945), "Curfew", published 1934 [ mixed chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846 - 1916), "The curfew" [ SSA chorus a cappella? ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stephen Ralph Glover (1812 - 1870), "The curfew bell", published >>1880 [ duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Coleman Gow (1860 - 1938), "Curfew", op. 2 (Five songs) no. 4, published 1888 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Coleman Gow (1860 - 1938), "Curfew", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from A Group of Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allis Gower , "The curfew bell", published 188-? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pasquale D. Guglielmo (1810 - 1873), "The curfew bell" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Liptrot Hatton (1809 - 1886), "Curfew", published 1869 [ contralto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur William Marchant (1850 - ?), "Curfew" [ women's chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Curfew", op. 150 no. 3 (2008) [ baritone and piano ], from Elf Lieder nach Henry W. Longfellow, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Edward Newell , "The curfew bell" [ 2-part chorus and piano ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Perabeau , "Curfew bell", published 1844-7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Francis Holcombe Read (b. 1821), "Curfew" [ contralto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (1835 - 1902), "The curfew", published 1862 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Silas (1827 - 1909), "The curfew", published 186-? [ baritone or contralto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Thomas Smart (1813 - 1879), "Curfew" [ satb chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Curfew", op. 91 (Twelve Songs) no. 6 (1943-1944), stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], unpublished; manuscript at Saint Michael's College Archives and available in scanned form at the Petrucci Music Library [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Simon Waley Waley (1827 - 1875), "Curfew" [ bass or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Eckstein (1845 - 1900) , "Die Nachtglocke", subtitle: "(Nach dem Englischen von H.W. Longfellow.)", appears in In Moll und Dur, in 3. Dritte Abtheilung ; composed by Georg Vierling.
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2008-06-08
Line count: 32
Word count: 126
Feierlich, schauerlich
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Available translation(s): ENG
Feierlich, schauerlich, Düster und bang Tönet der Glocke Schlummergesang. Löscht nun die Lichter, Die Asche deckt zu; Der Morgen bringt Sorgen, Die Nacht bringt die Ruh! Die Fenster sind dunkel, Die Herde sind kalt, -- Die Töne verklungen, Die Schritte verhallt. Kein Laut in der Kammer, Im Saale kein Schall; Schlaf und Vergessenheit Herrscht überall!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Ernst Eckstein, In Moll und Dur, Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1877, page 160.
Text Authorship:
- by Ernst Eckstein (1845 - 1900), "Die Nachtglocke", subtitle: "(Nach dem Englischen von H.W. Longfellow.)", appears in In Moll und Dur, in 3. Dritte Abtheilung [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Curfew", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1845
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Georg Vierling (1820 - 1901), "Die Nachtglocke im Winter", op. 36 (Sieben Gesänge für mittlere Stimme ) no. 3, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, W. Müller [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2022-04-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 54