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Unter verschnittenen Weiden, wo braune Kinder spielen und Blätter treiben, tönen Trompeten. Ein Kirchhofsschauer. Fahnen von Scharlach stürzen durch des Ahorns Trauer, Reiter entlang an Roggenfeldern, leeren Mühlen. Oder Hirten singen nachts und Hirsche treten in den Kreis ihrer Feuer, des Hains uralte Trauer. Tanzende heben sich von einer schwarzen Mauer; Fahnen von Scharlach, Lachen, Wahnsinn, Trompeten.
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Trompeten", appears in Gedichte 1909 -1913 [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 Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Trompeten", op. 18 (Lieder mit Klavier) no. 8 (1922) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oliver Knussen, CBE (1952 - 2018), "Trompeten", 1975, copyright © 1978 [ soprano and three clarinets in Bb ], London, Faber [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daan Manneke (b. 1939), "Trompeten", 2009, copyright © 2009 [ chorus ], from Liturgien, no. 1, Amsterdam : Muziek Centrum Nederland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Stuten (1890 - 1948), "Trompeten", published 1940 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from In memoriam Georg Trakl, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939), "Trompeten", 1974, published c2004 [ soprano and piano ], Theodore Presser Company
Publisher: Presser [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Elisabeth Siekhaus) , "Trumpets", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Clarions", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Trompettes", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Trombe", copyright © 2012, (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: 8
Word count: 57
Amidst the crippled willows, where tawny kids are playing and leaves are driven, clarions sound. A churchyard-shudder. Banners of scarlet tumble through the maple’s mourning, horsemen past fields of rye, deserted mills. Or shepherds sing at night and stags enter the circle of their fires, the grove’s archaic mourning. Dancers stand out against a black wall; banners of scarlet, laughter, madness, clarions.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2017 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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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Trompeten", appears in Gedichte 1909 -1913
This text was added to the website: 2017-01-18
Line count: 8
Word count: 62