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by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945)

Eros
Language: German (Deutsch) 
O, ich liebte ihn endlos!
Lag vor seinen Knie'n
Und klagte Eros
Meine Sehnsucht.
O, ich liebte ihn fassungslos.
Wie eine Sommernacht
Sank mein Kopf
Blutschwarz auf seinen Schoss
Und meine Arme umloderten ihn.
Nie schürte sich so mein Blut zu Bränden,
Gab mein Leben hin seinen Händen,
Und er hob mich aus schwerem Dämmerweh.
Und alle Sonnen sangen Feuerlieder
Und meine Glieder
Glichen
Irrgewordenen Lilien.

Confirmed with Else Lasker-Schüler, Werke und Briefe, Band 1: Gedichte Kritische Ausgabe, Erste Auflage, 1996, Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1996, page 46.


Text Authorship:

  • by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Eros", appears in Styx, Gedichte, first published 1902 [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 Longīns Apkalns (1923 - 1999), "Eros", 1960 [ alto and piano ], from Fünf Gedichte für Alt und Klavier, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Eros", 2018 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Elses Liebeslieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ursula Görsch (b. 1932), "Eros" [ voice and piano ], from Eros. Zyklus von sechs Liebeslieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reinhard Kröller (b. 1948), "Eros", from Es treiben mich brennende Lebensgewalten. Ein Liederzyklus, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ulrich Küchl (b. 1943), "Eros", op. 3 no. 1 (1983), first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder einer bewegten Seele für mittlere Stimme und Klavier, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (b. 1965), "Eros", op. 217 no. 1 (2020), first performed 2021 [ soprano, 2 pianos, percussion ], from »Das blaue Klavier«. Rundfunkoper, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Terse (b. 1945), "Eros", 2014, first performed 2015 [ mezzo-soprano, oboe, percussion, string quartet ], from Vier erotische Lieder aus dem Gedichtzyklus »Styx« von Else Lasker-Schüler für Mezzosopran, Oboe, Schlagzeug, Streichquartett, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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