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Nur einen Sommer gönnt, ihr Gewaltigen!
Und einen Herbst zu reifem Gesange mir,
Daß williger mein Herz, vom süßen
[Spiele]1 gesättiget, dann mir sterbe!
Die Seele, der im Leben ihr göttlich Recht
Nicht ward, sie ruht auch drunten im Orkus nicht;
Doch ist mir einst das Heilge, das am
Herzen mir liegt, das Gedicht gelungen:
Willkommen dann, o Stille der Schattenwelt!
Zufrieden bin ich, wenn auch mein Saitenspiel
Mich nicht hinabgeleitet; einmal
Lebt ich, wie Götter, und mehr bedarfs nicht.
1 Reutter: "Spiel"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "An die Parzen", appears in Gedichte 1784-1800 [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 Hauke Jasper Berheide , "An die Parzen", 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder nach Hölderlin, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Braunfels (1882 - 1954), "An die Parzen", op. 27 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Hölderlin-Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "An die Parzen", 1933 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier Gesänge nach Worten von Hölderlin, no. 1, Schott Music [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 - 1959), "An die Parzen", op. 23 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1929 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "An die Parzen" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "An die Parzen", 1935 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul von Klenau (1883 - 1946), "An die Parzen", 1942 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Ludwig Leitner (b. 1943), "An die Parzen", published 1995, first performed 1995 [ soprano, oboe, and harp ], from Elegien nach Texten von Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl und Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty für Sopran, Oboe und Harfe, no. 2, Vienna, Doblinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Mattiesen (1875 - 1939), "An die Parzen", op. 5, Heft 1 no. 2, published [1920] [ voice and piano ], from Künstlerandachten, no. 2, Leipzig : Edition Peters [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lars-Henrik Nysten (b. 1969), "An die Parzen", 2002, from Vier Fantasiestücke für Klavier und Sopranstimme nach Friedrich Hoelderlin, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "An die Parzen", op. 56 (Drei Gesänge nach Texten von Friedrich Hölderlin) no. 1, published 1944 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas F. Schubert (b. 1961), "An die Parzen" [ medium voice or high voice and piano ], from Hölderlin-Portrait, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Spano , "An die Parzen", from Hölderlin-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Wiener (1891 - 1942), "An die Parzen", op. 1 (1916) [ baritone and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "To the Fates", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "To: the Fates", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Aux Parques", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 81
Grant just one summer, you powerful ones! And one autumn for ripe songs, so that my heart might be more willing, satisfied with sweet playing, to die. My soul, which in life, did not realize its divine right, will not rest in Orcus; but if once the sacred thing that lies closest to my heart - my poetry - succeeds, then I will welcome the silence of the world of shadows! I will be content, even if my lyre does not come with me; for once I lived like the gods - and I require no more.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "An die Parzen", appears in Gedichte 1784-1800
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 95