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Wolle die Wandlung. O sei für die Flamme begeistert, [drin sich ein Ding dir entzieht, das mit Verwandlungen prunkt;]1 jener entwerfende Geist, welcher das Irdische meistert, liebt in dem Schwung der Figur nichts wie den wendenden Punkt. Was sich ins Bleiben verschließt, schon ists das Erstarrte; [wähnt es sich sicher im Schutz des unscheinbaren Grau's? Warte, ein Härtestes warnt aus der Ferne das Harte. Wehe -: abwesender Hammer holt aus! ]1 Wer sich als Quelle ergießt, den erkennt die Erkennung; und sie fuhrt ihn entzückt durch das heiter Geschaffne, das mit Anfang oft schließt und mit Ende beginnt. Jeder glückliche Raum ist Kind oder Enkel von Trennung, den sie staunend durchgehn. Und die verwandelte Daphne will, seit sie lorbeern fühlt, daß du dich wandelst in Wind.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 12 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Robert Edler (1912 - 1986), "Sonett 12 b (Sprecher)", op. 59 no. 10 [ tenor, speaker, chorus and orchestra ], from Sonette an Orpheus, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Lieberson (1946 - 2011), "Wolle, die Wandlung " [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Five Rilke Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Steen Pade (b. 1956), "Wolle die Wandlung" [ soprano and wind quintet ] [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Erik Janson (b. 1967), "Manche, des Todes, entstand ruhig geordnete Regel", 2008 [ soprano and violoncello ], from Fragmente nach Rilke, no. 3
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943) , no title, copyright © ; composed by Eric Moe.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz (1934 - 2011) , no title, copyright © ; composed by Vladislav Mikhailovich Lebedev.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (T. P. (Peter) Perrin) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Désire la transformation", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2009-06-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 126
Will transformation. O, be keen for the fires where renewal, superb, forces something to leave you, grow strange; the designer-spirit, earth's overseer, adores most of all, in the sweep of the image, the moment of change. A thing wrapped in permanence challenges demolition, but is that grey housing safety enough for its liking? "Watch out," to the hard comes the hardest's far admonition. Danger -- the unseen hammer is raised for striking! Who pours forth himself like a fountain, he's known by Knowing, which takes him, rapt, where all happiness commences, that often will close with opening, start at the end. Each blissful space they cross, astonished, is going to be child or grandchild of parting. When Daphne senses herself changed to laurel she wills you transformed into wind.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 12
This text was added to the website: 2009-06-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 128