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D 484 Gesang der Geister über den Wassern

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Signature: MH 88
Title: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Head title: [ohne Kopftitel]
Text incipit: [...] dann zur Tiefe nieder
Persons involved: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832) (text author)
Dated: without date
investigated date: Fall 1816
Period of origin: 3rd quarter 1816 to 4th quarter 1816
Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (vol. no.): IV/11 (Anh.)
Kind of issue: piano score
Type of document: incompletely, draft, fragment
Genre: lieder --> german lieder (without lieder cycles and canons)
Instrumentation: vocal solo
voice
piano (two hands)
Text language: deutsch
Watermarks: 1
Material for writing down: ink black-brown
Paper for writing onto: paper green-brownish
Height and width (in cm): 30,6 x 23,3 (25,7 x 20,1)
Format: landscape 4°
Pages: 1 sheet (2 p.)
Comment: Crossed out with red pencil (s. critical commentary). Combined manuscript 1 double sheet with D 478 (1st version, No. 3: ending as well as No. 2: 1st version) and D 476; part of an initially more extensive combined manuscript (with D 477, D 478: in the Austrian National Library, signature Mus.Hs. 42000).
Text by Schubert: [...]
Dann
Zur Tiefe nieder

Ragen Klippen
Dem Sturz entgegen
Schäumt er unmuthig,
Stufenweise
Zu dem Abgrund.

Im flachen Bette
Schleicht er das Wiesenthal hin,
Und in dem glatten See
Weiden ihr Antlitz
Alle Gestirne

Wind ist der Welle
Lieblicher Buhler
Wind mischt vom Grund aus
Schäumende Wogen
[...]
Collection: Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (Link zum Katalog)
Previous owner: Schneider, Eduard
Dumba, Nikolaus
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