Ach Gott, wem soll ichs klagen (Wolfgang Grefinger)

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• (Posted 2020-01-19)  CPDL #56693:     

Editor: Nikolaus Hold (submitted 2020-01-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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Title: Ach Gott, wem soll ichs klagen
Composer: Wolfgang Grefinger
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Teutsche Liedlein (Georg Forster), Volume 5, no. 38
Description: The authorship is not quite sure:

• In Das Erbe deutscher Musik, Band 63, the composer is Wolfgang Grefinger (probably for a good reason).
• In the original Teutsche Liedlein (Georg Forster) Noel Bauldeweyn is named.

This multiple attribution is discussed at length in The Music of Noel Beuldeweyn, by Edgar H. Spark, American Musicological Society, Studies and Documents, No. 6, 1972. You may find a French version at En douleur, en tristesse (Noel Bauldeweyn).

External websites:

• Ach Gott, wem soll ichs klagen (Wolfgang Grefinger) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
• Google-Books: The Music of Noel Beuldeweyn

Original text and translations

German text

Ach Got, wem sol ichs klagen
das heimlich Leyden mein,
mein Bul ist mir veriaget,
bringt meinem herzen pein,
sol ich mich von ir scheyden,
thut meinem hertzen weh,
so schwing ich mich uber die Heiden,
du g'sichst mich nimmer mer.