On the water to sing
Singing on the Water is a poem written in 1782 by Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , a German poet , translator and lawyer .
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg's revolutionary-pathetic poems are counted as Sturm und Drang .
"To sing on the water" was first published in the Muses Almanac for 1783 by Johann Heinrich Voss under the title "To sing a song on the water, for my Agnes."
Franz Schubert set nine poems by Stolberg to music, among them “To sing on the water” ( D 774). The song for voice with piano accompaniment is one of the most popular Schubert songs. Franz Liszt arranged this piece and published a piano étude without a voice under the title "To sing on the water".
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- ↑ Schubert - 12 songs, S558 / R243: No. 2. Singing on the water.
Web links
Wikisource: Singing a Song on the Water - Sources and Full Texts
- Lyrics at recmusic.org
- Complete recording of the Schubert song as mp3 , recorded by Peter Schöne (baritone) and Olga Monakh (piano) on schubertlied.de
- Complete live audio video of Liszt's piano transcription of Schubert's song “To sing on the water” , interpreted by pianist Shiho Naruzima
- First print of the poem as a digitized version in the Bavarian State Library
- First print of the song by Franz Schubert in the Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion on December 30, 1823 as a digitized version in the Austrian National Library