Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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Fritz Wunderlich sings Beethoven's Andenken, accompanied by Rolf Reinhard (recorded in 1956)

Friedrich von Matthisson's words that Beethoven set, followed by an English translation:

Ich denke dein,
Wenn durch den Hain
Der Nachtigallen
Akkorde schallen!
Wann denkst du mein?

Ich denke dein
Im Dämmerschein
Der Abendhelle
Am Schattenquelle!
Wo denkst du mein?

Ich denke dein
Mit süßer Pein
Mit bangem Sehnen
Und heißen Tränen!
Wie denkst du mein?

O denke mein,
Bis zum Verein
Auf besserm Sterne!
In jeder Ferne
Denk ich nur dein!

English translation:

I think of you
when through the grove
the nightingales
sing out their chords!
When do you think of me?

I think of you
at the twilight
of evening
by the shadowy spring!
Where do you think of me?

I think of you
with sweet pain,
with anxious longing
and hot tears!
How do you think of me?

O think of me
until our union
on a better star!
However distant I may be
I think only of you!?

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