The song was published by Edition Peters the same year, the vocal score in September, the parts in November.

She remained dedicated to him after his death, giving the autograph of the piano version of An die Hoffnung and several other memorabilia to the Max-Reger-Institute.

[4] Reger scored work for a low female voice (alto or mezzo-soprano), and an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three timpani and strings.

[6] Hermann Scherchen recorded it along with other works by Reger in 1960 with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and Margarethe Bence as the soloist.

[7] Leon Botstein conducted in 2001 a recording with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, complementing Reger works such as Vier Tondichtungen nach A.