Lützow's wild hunt
Lützow's wild hunt is a six-verse poem by Theodor Körner , which was written on April 24, 1813 in the course of the liberation wars in Leipzig on the Schneckenberge and was published in Leipzig in the same year in his volume of poetry Twelve Free German Poems . In the following year, after Körner's death, the poem was set to music in a modified form by Carl Maria von Weber and developed into a soldier's song that is often sung , also under the title Lützow's wild, daring hunt or under the opening line What shines there from the forest? got known.
Text in the original version from 1813
What shines there from the forest in the sunshine,
Hear it roar closer and closer;
It pulls itself down in dark rows
and shrill horns, they pound,
and fill the soul with horror.
And if you ask the black fellows:
It is Lützow's wild, daring hunt
What is roaming
quickly through the dark forest,
What is chasing from mountains to mountains.
It lies in ambush at night,
That cheers Hurray. The rifle bangs.
The Frankish henchmen fall.
And if you ask the black hunters:
It's Lützow's wild, daring hunt.
Where the vines glow there, the Rhine roars,
which ... [Wütrich] thought he was safe.
But what is approaching there in the thunderstorm,
And rushes in with a strong arm,
And leaps to the shore of the enemy?
And if you ask the black swimmers
it's Lützow's wild, daring hunt.
What is the loud battle raging there in the valley,
What do the swords strike!
The black warriors fight the battle
and the spark of freedom is glowing awakened,
And blazes in bloody flames.
And if you ask the black men:
It's Lützow's wild, daring hunt.
What separates there gurgling from the sunlight, nestled
under a thousand enemies.
Death twitches on the face,
But courageous hearts do not tremble,
The fatherland is saved!
And if you ask the black fallen:
It's Lützow's wild, daring hunt.
The wild hunt and the German hunt
for ... [hangman's] blood and tyrants.
So you who love us, have not cried and complained!
The land is free and tomorrow meets, even
if we only won it by dying!
And from grandchildren to grandchildren it is said:
That was Lützow's wild, daring hunt.
Settings
- Choir for 4 male voices by Carl Maria von Weber in: Leyer and Schwerdt, Op. 42 n ° 2 [booklet 2], ed. A. M. Schlesinger, Berlin 1816.
- Franz Schubert's setting D.205, composed in 1815, was published in 1892.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Twelve free German poems by Theodor Körner. Along with an appendix , Leipzig 1813, pp. 31–33.
- ^ Choral Public Domain Library .
- ^ International Music Score Library Project