Rest! To be a guest for once. Not always oneself [ ... ]
Castle
Set by Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968), "Castle", first performed 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 14, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 14, first published 1906
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
1 omitted by Bielawa.Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
It began as a feast. And became a festival, one hardly knows how… There was a beating of waves in the halls, a meeting together and a choosing of each other, a parting with each other and a finding again, a rejoicing in the radiance and a blinding in the light… Out of dark wine and a thousand roses runs the hour rushing into the dream of night.
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It is based on
- a text in English by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 15, copyright ©
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 15, first published 1906
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]One, who wears white silk [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 17, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 17, first published 1906
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
1 omitted by Bielawa.Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Have you forgotten that you are my page [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 18, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 18, first published 1906
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
1 omitted by Bielawa.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Slowly the castle lights go out. Everyone is heavy [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 19, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 19, first published 1906
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
1 omitted by Bielawa.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Author(s): [More than can fit here], Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985)