Beiseit

Ich mache meinen Gang;
Der führt ein Stückchen weit
Und heim; dann ohne Klang
Und Wort bin ich beiseit.

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Robert Walser (1878 - 1956) [ 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 Heinz Holliger (b. 1939), "Beiseit", 1990/1 [counter-tenor, clarinet, accordion, and contrabass], from Beiseit: Zwölf Lieder nach Gedichten von Robert Walser, no. 1. [
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• by Urs Peter Schneider (b. 1939), "Beiseit", 1958-73, first performed 1980. [soprano and piano] [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

Text added to the website: 2007-08-18.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:27
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