Sonnenaufgang | Unter des Himmels purpurnem Brand

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by Tor Hedberg (1862 - 1931)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Soluppgång

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE GER

Under himlens purpurbrand
Ligga tysta sjö och land,
Det är gryningsstunden.
Snöig gren och frostvit kvist
Tecka sig så segervisst
Mot den röda grunden.

Riddarn står vid fönsterkarm,
Lyssnar efter stridens larm,
Trampar golvets tilja.
Men en smal och snövit hand
Kyler milt hans pannas brand,
Böjer mjukt hans vilja.tenderly 

Riddarn sätter horn till mun,
Blåser vilt I gryningsstund,
Över nejd som tiger.
Tonen klingar, klar och spröd,
Branden slocknar, gyllenröd,
Solen sakta stiger.

Text Authorship:

by Tor Hedberg (1862 - 1931) [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 Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Soluppgång", op. 37 no. 3 (1902), published 1906, orchestrated 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Fem sånger, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David McCleery) , "Sunrise", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Auringonnousu", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Lever de soleil", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sonnenaufgang", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 74

Sonnenaufgang

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Unter des Himmels purpurnem Brand
liegen stille Meer und Land
in der Morgenstund.
Verschneiter Ast, bereifter Zweig
zeichnen ab sich siegesreich 
gegen roten Hintergrund. 

Zum Ritter, der am Fenster steht,
Schlachtenlärm herüber weht;
auf und ab er schreitet.
Doch eine kleine, schneeweiße Hand
- sanft kühlt sie seiner Stirne Brand -
ihn zart zum Bleiben verleitet.

Der Ritter führt sein Horn zum Mund
bläst wild hinaus in die Morgenstund
über das Land, das schweigt.
Hell klingt’s hinaus und spröde;
und es erlischt der Brand der Morgenröte
allmählich, als die Sonne steigt.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 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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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-12
Line count: 18
Word count: 89