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Gib mir [nur die]1 Hand, nur den Finger, dann seh ich diesen ganzen Erdkreis als mein Eigen an! O wie blüht mein Land, sieh [mich]2 doch nur an, daß [ich mit dir]3 über die Wolken in die Sonne kann!
Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896, page 126. Spelling has been modernized ("Gib" was "Gieb").
1 Schoenberg: "deine"2 Schoenberg: "dir's"
3 Schoenberg: "es mit uns"
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Erhebung", 1917 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Erhebung", op. 12 (Vierzehn Lieder) no. 13 (1997-8) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Erhebung", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 3 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Erhebung", op. 8 (Sechs Gedichte von Richard Dehmel) no. 2, published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962) ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Elevation", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Élévation", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Opphøyelse", 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: 42
Proffer me your hand, merely the finger, then I look upon the whole world as my own. O, how my country is full of flowers, behold it and see that it can rise with us above the clouds to the sun!
Note: this is a translation of Schoenberg's version.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2007 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 Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt
This text was added to the website: 2007-02-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 41