Song to the moon - Piano solo by Matthias Dobler

Composer: Antonín Dvořák
Title: Song to the moon (from the opera Rusalka)
Original in Czech: "Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém"
Arrangement and Piano: ©Matthias Dobler

I heard Rusalka and "song to the moon" with Lucia Popp as the water nymph and was fascinated. I searched for a piano arrangement and found nothing. Wasn´t there anyone, who made a piano transcription? No?
Ok, so here´s mine.

Sheet Music available at

The lyrics of these great Aria in English:

Silvery moon in the velvet sky
Your light shines far in the heavens
Over the world, wandering
Gazing in human dwellings
Over the world, wandering
Gazing in human dwellings
Oh, once in awhile, stay with me
Tell me where is my love?
Oh, once in awhile, stay with me
Tell me where is my love... where?
Tell him, oh, tell him, silver moon
That in my arms, I enfold him
Tell him he dreams to tangle me
Even if only for a moment
Tell him in dreams to think of me
Even if just for a moment
Shine on in reverie
Shine on him
Tell him, oh, tell him
I am here, waiting
Shine on in reverie
Shine on him
Tell him, oh, tell him
I am here, waiting
If a human soul should dream of me
May he still remember me on waking
Dear moon, oh, shine for him
Shine for him
Shine, oh, shine for him

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[jeyulee]

I felt the same and decided to write my own transcription. Right before getting started I found out your beautiful rendition. You did a wonderful job already. Thank you for your great work!!

[helterweigates]

Clicked on this thinking there’s no way a piano solo version can do justice to this piece. How wrong I was! Beautifully adapted & played!

[tarakalavista]

I remember hearing this at age 15, when I was just beginning to fall in love with opera... I was never quite the same afterward. This is a gorgeous rendition.

[kazemitsuki]

This was one of the favourite songs of my grandma .... I loved her so much .... I cried when hearing this ....

[luisekrost]

beautifully arranged and played! listening again and again, thank you for sharing.

[MatthiasDobler]

Sheet Music finally available for download, check description :)

[francinesustaita]

Heard 1st in chello, and fell in love with it. I wanted to hear it in piano only and found you! Love the lyrics, I didn't know where is was from, thank you for the background on this piece.

[ChrisBreemer]

One of the most beautiful arias ever. Quite inexplicable that nobody as yet had wrote a piano transcription... and wonderful you took up the gauntlet and delivered so beautifully !

[elixir]

This is completely enchanting, mesmerizing and haunting....You're deeply talented. Thank you very much for conveying the depth of my inner and intransmissible despair through your arrangement

[Charlie]

It is so nice! I feel I have seen the resalka are dancing around my heart especially in the ending.

[m.phillips]

Mystically Mezmerizing & absolutely gorgeous. Wishing a thought in Thanks for you with
your musically wonderful piano playing & of your shared piano playing performances.
Wishing for every note played or will be play yet still, in hopes musically wished the notes are or will yet ...be traveling in their richness as once played in the jewel crowning tonal sounds captured & released going freely to resonate onwardly into the vast universe & might one day in hopefully refrain, be recaptured spiritually experienced once again somewhere in the realms of eternity. Best Wishes upon all of your musical talented endeavours & Bravo !

[godowskidream]

Amazing, Matthias, you are the greatest. Thanks for your copy. There can not be a better piano transcription.

[derekmorse]

that was lovely, thanks, you lifted my spirit right up.

[veraz]

Unglaublich schön!!! Einfach toll!!!👏 Danke!

[MakeMusic]

Amazing Piano skills there, keep it up talented Pianist ! 👍

[veraz]

👌Passt wunderschön zu dem Vollmond 2020🌕 ( war gestern genau so grandios!)

[Pythonaria]

Beautiful arrangement Matthias. I will contact you soon for a copy of your arrangement as, like you, I couldn't find a piano solo transcript anywhere.

[hjaw_piano]

I wish to play this arrangement as well as you.
We'll see, maybe I'll play even better 😊

[MAYDONATI-rlgh]

Have you ever heard a piano sing and hear the words too ...let me listen to the dew of harmony.

[sp]

Amazing! and beutiful!!
Could I get this song pdf?