by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Ma vie n’est pas cette heure abrupte
Language: French (Français)  after the German (Deutsch)
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Ma vie n’est pas cette heure abrupte"
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Mein Leben ist", written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 20, first published 1905
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Antoine Tisné (1932 - 1998), "Ma vie n’est pas cette heure abrupte", 1956 [ voice and piano ], Partition inédite
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Robert Bly (b. 1926) , "My life is not this steeply sloping hour", appears in Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, first published 1981, copyright © by Harper and Row, (re)printed on this website with kind permission ; composed by Mark Abel, Larry Klein, Robert Benford Lepley.
- Also set in Norwegian (Bokmål), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Synne Skouen.
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