Bacchus, Fürst des Weins, D. 888 (Franz Schubert)

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(Posted 2019-08-07) CPDL #54999:

Editor: Nikolaus Hold (submitted 2019-08-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 49 kB Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Arr. for TTBB from Sammlung von Volksgesängen für den Männerchor, II. Band (Gustav Weber).

General Information

Title: Trinklied, D. 888 "Bacchus, feister Fürst des Weins"
Composer: Franz Schubert
Lyricist: William Shakespeare

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo voice
Genre: Secular, Lied

Language: German
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1850
2nd published: 1892 in Sammlung von Volksgesängen für den Männerchor, II. Band (Gustav Weber), no. 260
Description: Trinklied aus Shakespeare's Antonius und Cleopatra. The German translator is not to be confused with another of Schubert's friends, Johann Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

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Original text and translations

German text

Text in D. 888:
Bachus feister Fürst des Weins,
Komm mit Augen hellen Scheins,
Unsre Sorg' ersäuf' dein Fass,
Und dein Laub uns krönen lass,
Füll' uns bis die Welt sich dreht.
tr. Ferdinand Mayerhofer von Grünbühel (1798-1869)

English text

Shakespeare's lyric:
Come thou Monarch of the Vine,
Plumpie Bacchus, with pinke eyne:
In thy Fattes our Cares be drown'd,
With thy Grapes out haires be Crown'd.
Cup us till the world go round,
Cup us till the world go round.
(Anthony and Cleopatra II, vii)