Gebrochene Blüten | Weiße Nelken, Veilchen weiß und weißer Flieder

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by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Oeillets blancs, lilas blancs et...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: GER

Oeillets blancs, lilas blancs et violettes blanches:
Et le char Sépulcral s'en va vers les caveaux,
Sinistre et chaste, au pas rythmique des chevaux
Qui bercent les grands draps déployés sur leurs hanches..

O vierges, d'autres mai fleuriront les pervenches
Les baisers écloront dans les avril nouveaux
Et la brise des juin grisera les cerveaux!
Mais vos corps sans désirs dormiront sous les planches,

Toujours! Et c'est fini sans être commencé...
Votre avenir d'hier a mille ans de passé:
Vos coeurs immaculés sont morts avant de naître!
Oeillets blancs, lilas blancs et violettes blanches.

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Text Authorship:

by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Vierges mortes", written 1885, appears in L'Âme nue, in 1. La Vie extérieure, in 2. Les Cultes, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Fasquelle, first published 1885 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Vierges mortes (L'âme nue)", op. 14 (1902), published 1915 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], Genève, Éd. Ad. Henn [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gebrochene Blüten", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 94

Gebrochene Blüten

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Weiße Nelken, Veilchen weiß und weißer Flieder:
sieh, der Leichenwagen nähert sich dem Grab,
unheilvoll und keusch, im Rhythmus auf und nieder
schwingen schwarze Tücher am Gespann herab.

Ach Mägdlein, neue Maien werden immergrünen,
und Küsse werden euch erblühn im neuen Lenz,
durch Junis Odem wird euch Kopf und Herz erglühen!
Doch ohn' Begier schlaft ihr in neuer Existenz.

Allzeit! Und ausgeklungen, ohne je begonnen ...
ist eure Zukunft tausend Jahre schon zerronnen:
eh' es gepocht, das reine Herz, im Tod schon wieder!
Ach, weiße Nelken, Veilchen weiß und weißer Flieder.

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Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2006 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Vierges mortes", written 1885, appears in L'Âme nue, in 1. La Vie extérieure, in 2. Les Cultes, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Fasquelle, first published 1885
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This text was added to the website: 2006-02-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 90