Es geht ein Wehen, Op. 62, No. 6 (Johannes Brahms)

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• CPDL #23480:

Editor: Robert Urmann (submitted 2011-05-06).   Score information: Executive, 3 pages, 156 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: see Sieben Lieder, Op. 62 for a complete edition

• CPDL #00707: Finale 2004a

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2000-02-25).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 68 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:
Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: wrong notes in the Alto-part in bar 1-2, corrected in Finale file

General Information

Title: Es geht ein Wehen, Op. 62, No. 6 [I hear a sighing]
Work: Sieben Lieder, Op. 62 [Seven Songs]
Composer: Johannes Brahms

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Lied

Language: German
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

• September 1874; Berlin: Simrock
• Sämtliche Werke, vol. 21

Description:

External websites:

• Scanned score of the first print from Brahms Institute at the University of Music Lübeck (Germany)

Original text and translations

German text Es geht ein Wehen durch den Wald, die Windsbraut hör’ ich singen. Sie singt von einem Buhlen gut, und bis sie dem in Armen ruht, muß sie noch weit in bangem Mut sich durch die Lande schwingen. Der Sang, der klingt so schauerlich, der klingt so wild, so trübe; das heiße Sehnen ist erwacht: mein Schatz, zu tausend gute Nacht! Es kommt der Tag, eh du’s gedacht, der eint getreue Liebe!

English translation I hear a sighing thro’ the wood, the tempest bride is singing; her song is of her lover true, for him the world she ranges trough, the broken boughs her way bestrew, while she to him is winging. How wild and weary is her song, into my soul ’thas darted; it wakes the pangs I fain would quell, the hour when last we spoke Farewell! The bitter grief that then befell, when, o my love, we parted.