6 Variations on "Ich denke dein"
| Song Title | 6 Variations on "Ich denke dein" (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Bittersweet; Distance; Duet; Evening; Gleams; Longing; Moon; Painting; Seas; Shimmer; Shining; Springs; Sun; Thinking; Unanswered Love |
| First Line | Ich denke dein, wenn mir der Sonne Schimmer (Search) |
| Average Duration | 6:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1803 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=6358 |
| Musical Form | Variation (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | German romanticism; A friend of the Göttinger Hainbund (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/87/IMSLP05753-Beethoven_6variations4hdg_woo74.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/5sCXQTGDk9CPlirrHSfzDW |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 74 (Search) |
| Range: | D4 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Duchesses Josephine Deym and Therese Brunswick (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Most of the song is piano variation with no vocal; the only vocal part is the opening two lines. (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voice and duet piano (Search) |