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Jagdlied
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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2 editions of this piece
Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
SATB · Gerd Eichler
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Jagdlied by Felix Mendelssohn — Lyrics
Jagdlied
Durch schwankende Wipfel schiesst goldener Strahl,
tief unter den Gipfeln das neblige Tal,
Fern hallt es vom Schlosse, das Waldhorn ruft,
es wiehern die Rosse in die luft.
Bald Ländern und Seeen, bald Wolkenzug
tief schimmernd zu sehen in schwindelndem Flug,
Bald Dunkel wieder hüllt Reiter und Ross,
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About Jagdlied
Felix Mendelssohn's Jagdlied captures a thrilling scene of a hunt, vividly painting a picture of a golden sunbeam piercing through treetops and a misty valley below. The distant call of a hunting horn and the neighing of horses echo through the landscape, adding to the exhilarating atmosphere. The text evokes a sense of rapid movement and changing scenery, from lands and lakes to clouds, before darkness descends again. This SATB setting in German expresses the exhilaration of the chase and the sheer joy of being alive in nature, with a final exclamation of 'sweetly chilling delight!' and a freed heart.
