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This rich selection of 40 charming works includes the celebrated title song plus Don Juan's Serenade, Mignon's Song, Night of Stars, Serenade, Song of the Gipsy Girl, and other exquisite pieces for Voice and Piano.
Texts are by Goethe, Heine, Tolstoy, and other great poets, in English and either German or French.
"Penetrating sweetness and sadness." — Grove.
Reprint of the Oliver Ditson, Philadelphia, 1912 edition.
"Farewell, fond visions! (Fahrt hin, ihr Träume!)" Op.63 No.3
"No, whom I love I'll ne'er reveal (Nein, wen ich liebe)" Op.28 No.1
"O my child, in the silence of night (O, mein Kind, durch die schweigende Nacht)" Op.63 No.6
"Oh, leave me not, friend of mine (O geh' nicht von mir, mein Freund)" Op.27 No.3
"Speak not, O beloved (Nicht Worte, Geliebter)" Op.6 No.2
"That simple old ballad, O sing me (O möchtest du einmal noch singen)" Op.16 No.4
"Yearning, I wait now alone (Weil' ich, wie einstmals, allein)" Op.73 No.6
A legend (Legende) Op.54 No.5
A night of stars (Sternennacht) Op.60 No.12
At the ball (Inmitten des Balles) Op.38 No.3
Cradle Song (Wiegenlied) Op.16 No.1
Death (Der Tod) Op.57 No.5
Did my mother give me life (Hat die Mutter zu so schwerem Leide) Op.27 No.5
Disappointment (Déception) Op.65 No.2
Don Juan's serenade (Ständchen des Don Juan) Op.38 No.1
Endless love (Die Thräne bebt) Op.6 No.4
Farewell (Lebewohl) Op.60 No.8
He truly loved me so! (Er liebte mich so sehr!) Op.28 No.4
If you but knew (Si vous saviez) Op.60 No.3
It was in early days of spring (Es war zur ersten Frühlingszeit Op.38 No.2
Linger yet! (Warte noch!) Op.16 No.2
Mignon's song (Mignon's Lied) Op.25 No.3
No word from thee (Kein Wort von dir) Op.28 No.5
None but the lonely heart (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) Op.6 No.6
Not at once did I yield to love's yearning (Nicht sogleich hat mich Liebe erfüllet) Op.63 No.1
One small word (Ein einzig Wörtchen) Op.28 No.6
Pimpinella (Florentine Song) Op.38 No.6
Serenade (Sérénade) Op.65 No.1
Some one said unto the fool (Einst zum Narren Jemand spricht) Op.25 No.6
Song of the gipsy Girl (Lied der Zigeunerin) Op.60 No.7
T was you alone (Nur du allein) Op.57 No.6
Tears (Les larmes) Op.65 No.5
The canary (Der Kanarienvogel) Op.25 No.4
The cuckoo (Der Kuckuk) Op.54 No.8
To sleep (An den Schlaf) Op.27 No.1
Was I not a blade of grass (War ich nicht ein Halm) Op.47 No.7
What care I? (Was nun?) Op.16 No.5
Wherefore? (Warum?) Op.28 No.3
Whether day dawns (Ob heller Tag) Op.47 No.6
Why? (Warum?) Op.6 No.5