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    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms
    Musical Setting
    • Sep 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms

    So dark, so dark the willow forests loom, The skies are wintered and the evening hushed. Now neither shroud nor light nor vapors rise, Th...
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    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"
    The Editor
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"

    Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the w...
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    Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I
    The Editor
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I

    The Chained Muse is proud to present the first part in a lecture series by music scholar Fred Haight. In this installment, there will be ...
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    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert
    Musical Setting
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert

    My songs travel through the cool night, Searching for you. Find me in the tranquil grove, love— I'll wait for you. The gentle fronds of r...
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    Nacht und Traume Set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Nacht und Traume Set by Franz Schubert

    Holy night, descending softly, Descending, too, are our dreams, Like moonlight through a darkened room, Through the depths of a man`s bre...
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    The Rain Song Set by Brahms
    Original Translation
    • Dec 7, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Rain Song Set by Brahms

    Fall rain, fall upon this old world, And wake deep inside me the dreams That I dreamt when I was a child, When rain would wet the golden ...
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    Im Fruhling set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Oct 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Im Fruhling set by Franz Schubert

    I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a glowing veil Over the deep and tranquil dale— I used to lo...
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    Goethe's "It Springs Eternal" Set by Johannes Brahms
    Original Translation
    • Aug 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Goethe's "It Springs Eternal" Set by Johannes Brahms

    Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 "Marie and I were sitting in the dining-room when the bell rang, and we heard Brahms go to our mother's room. Soon ...
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    Immer leise wird mein Schlummer - Set by Johannes Brahms
    Original Translation
    • Aug 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Immer leise wird mein Schlummer - Set by Johannes Brahms

    My sleep grows ever more gentle, Only my sorrow, like a veil, Trembles over me. I hear you often in my dreams, Standing at my door, calli...
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    Goethe's "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kent"
    Original Translation
    • Jun 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Goethe's "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kent"

    Only he who truly longs Knows what grips me! Alone, the love that belongs With me has been set free. I look to the cloudy throngs Across ...
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    The Gods of Greece - Set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Gods of Greece - Set by Franz Schubert

    Schubert set one of the 28 stanza's of Schiller's poem to music. We present an original translation along with the original German. Stay ...
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    Two Goethe Poems Set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 3 min

    Two Goethe Poems Set by Franz Schubert

    The great poet Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe died on this day in 1832. Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) Who goes there riding through the night...
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    Death and the Maiden
    Original Translation
    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Death and the Maiden

    Maiden Away! Away from me fiend! Off you bare-skulled savage! I’m still young, with long to live! Away! And leave me be. Death Lend me yo...
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    15th and 16th Century Spanish Love Poems from Schumann's "Spanische Liebeslieder"
    Original Translation
    • Oct 10, 2018
    • 5 min

    15th and 16th Century Spanish Love Poems from Schumann's "Spanische Liebeslieder"

    Discover the true magic of these poems: read along as you listen to the settings of Robert Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder cycle found ...
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    Lerchengesang(Lark Song)
    Original Translation
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    Lerchengesang(Lark Song)

    Ethereal, distant voices, Heavenly greetings of larks, How sweetly you move men's hearts With your enchanting voices. As my eyes begin op...
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    The Fishergirl by Heinrich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Oct 3, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Fishergirl by Heinrich Heine

    Come you lovely fisher girl, Come and bring your boat to land; Join me on the golden shore, We'll cuddle hand in hand. Lay your head on m...
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    An die Musik
    Original Translation
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    An die Musik

    Thou sacred art, in how many trying hours When I had been thrown through life’s winding ways Did you come and lift my sad heart into Love...
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    Atlas by Heinrich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Sep 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    Atlas by Heinrich Heine

    I, wretched Atlas, must carry the world, I must carry this wide world of wrenching pain. I bear the unbearable and my heart Breaks within...
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    Feldeinsamkeit by Hermann Allmers
    Original Translation
    • Aug 6, 2018
    • 1 min

    Feldeinsamkeit by Hermann Allmers

    Peacefully, I rest in the tall green grass For a long time only gazing as I lie, Caught in the endless hymn of crickets, And encircled by...
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    Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Jul 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine

    Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day. But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window there looms a...
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