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Sehnsucht
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peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Susan McDaniel
Song Title
Sehnsucht (
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Composer(s):
Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keyword(s) & Features:
Admiring
;
Appearing
;
Asking
;
Astonished
;
Astonishment
;
Birds
;
Brooks
;
Bushy
;
Circling
;
Cliffs
;
Clouds
;
Courses
;
Dark
;
Day
;
Departing
;
Dispersing
;
Evening
;
Fair
;
Far
;
Flight
;
Flying
;
Following
;
Forests
;
Friendly
;
Gazing
;
Gilding
;
Gleaming
;
Glittering
;
Going
;
Happy
;
Hearts
;
Heights
;
Hurrying
;
Imagination
;
Ladies
;
Leaving
;
Light
;
Lingering
;
Listening
;
Longing
;
Love
;
Meadows
;
Metaphor: Speaker as Bird
;
Mountains
;
Mystery
;
Nature
;
Near
;
Night
;
Observing
;
Outdoors
;
Outside
;
Paths
;
Peering
;
Pensive
;
Personification: Nature
;
Pulling
;
Questioning
;
Ravens
;
Ruins
;
Singing
;
Sky
;
Smiles
;
Smiling
;
Solitude
;
Stars
;
Sun
;
Transforming
;
Traveling
;
Twisting
;
Unseen Forces
;
Unspoken Love
;
Wandering
;
Watching
;
Water
;
Wondering
;
Woods
;
Yanking
First Line
Was zieht mir das Herz so? (
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Average Duration
2:15 (
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Year of composition
1810 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=6602
Larger Work
Three Songs, Op. 83 (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Sturm und Drang; Innerlichkeit (
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Original Language
German (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/33/IMSLP317198-PMLP100842-LvBeethoven_3_Ges%C3%A4nge,_Op.83_BH_Werke.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DXQuWUPyEdcrDacmgewQO
Link to IPA Source
https://www.ipasource.com/product/sehnsucht-die-stille-nacht-umdunkelt-2/
Catalog Designation
Op. 83, no. 2 (
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Range:
E#4 - F#5 (
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Original Key
B minor (
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Premiered By
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Contributor
GTM (
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