Rätsel

Song TitleRätsel (Search)
Composer(s):Robert Schumann
Author(s):Karl Ludwig Kannegiesser (after Catherine Maria Fanshawe)
Keyword(s) & Features: Animals; Banks; Battles; Big; Breath; Breathing; Daily; Discipline; Dissecting; Echoes; Finding; Fleeing; Floods; Flowers; Germany; Giving; Greece; Grumbling; Heads; Hearing; Heaven; Heights; Hell; Heroes; Hiding; Houses; Humming; Humor; Internal; Jokes; Jokes, Musical; Lacking; Little; Love; Men; Mute; Omitting; Peace; Philosophy; Poetry; Riddles; Scholars; Shadows; Small; Sounds; Theology; Tiber River; Traces; Turmoil; Waves; Weak; Whispering; Women; Wretched
First LineEs flüstert's der Himmel, es murrt es die Hölle (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1840 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=113259
Larger WorkMyrthen (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/db/IMSLP51688-PMLP12732-RS120.pdf
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/ratsel-2/
Catalog DesignationOp. 25 no. 16 (Search)
Range: B3 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyA major (Search)
Dedicated ToClara Schumann (Search)
NotesMyrthen was composed as a wedding gift to Schumann's bride, Clara Wieck (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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