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Komm zu mir in der Nacht -- wir schlafen engverschlungen. Müde bin ich sehr, vom Wachen einsam. Ein fremder Vogel hat in dunkler Frühe schon gesungen, Als noch mein Traum mit sich und mir gerungen. Es öffnen Blumen sich vor allen Quellen Und färben sich mit deiner Augen Immortellen . . . . . Komm zu mir in der Nacht auf Siebensternenschuhen Und Liebe eingehüllt spät in mein Zelt. Es steigen Monde aus verstaubten Himmelstruhen. Wir wollen wie zwei seltene Tiere liebesruhen Im hohen Rohre hinter dieser Welt.
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Confirmed with My Blue Piano: Bilingual edition, translations by Brooks Haxton, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015, page 112.
Confirmed with Else Lasker-Schüler, Werke und Briefe. Kritische Ausgabe, herausgegeben von Norbert Oellers, Heinze Rölleke und Itta Shedletzky, Band 1 Gedichte, bearbeitet von Karl Jürgen Skrodzki unter Mitarbeit von Norbert Oellers, Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996, page 297.
Text Authorship:
- by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Ein Liebeslied", written 1943, appears in Mein blaues Klavier, in An ihn [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ali N. Askin (b. 1962), "In der Nacht" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Ein Liebeslied", 2007 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Bares (1936 - 2014), "Ein Liebeslied", op. 379 (1964), first performed 1964 [ baritone and harp ], from Lieder zur Harfe, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sharon Eitan (b. 1961), "Ein Liebeslied", 1992 [ soprano and piano ], from Else Lasker-Schüler Song Cycle, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reinhard David Flender (b. 1953), "Ein Liebeslied", 1993, first performed 1993 [ mezzo-soprano and orchestra ], from Sternenklang. 15 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Kammerorchester, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sibylle Friz (b. 1966), "Ein Liebeslied", 2016, first performed 2017 [ 2 voices, cello, bass guitar, synthesizer ], from Komm zu mir in der Nacht... Zwölf Lieder für zwei Stimmen, Violoncello, Elektrobass und Loopstation, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Goldmann (1941 - 2009), "Ein Liebeslied", 1994, published 1994 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konrad Hupfer (b. 1935), "Ein Liebeslied", 1994, first performed 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für Sing- und Sprechstimme und Klavier, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ulrich Klan (b. 1953), "Ein Liebeslied", 1988-2007 [ voice and instrumental ensemble ], from Mein blaues Klavier. Liederzyklus für Gesang, Bassklarinette, Flöte, Klavier, Wasser und Steine, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Kornberger (b. 1920), "Komm zu mir in der Nacht", 1966-1993 [ voice and piano ], from Meinwärts. Liederzyklus , no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eric Mayr (b. 1962), "Ein Liebeslied", 2021, first performed 2022 [ soprano and piano ], from Mein blaues Klavier, 32 Lieder für Sopran und Klavier, no. 26 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christina Cordelia Messner (b. 1969), "Ein Liebeslied", 1998, first performed 1998 [ voice and instrumental ensemble ], from Auf einmal musste ich singen - und ich wusste nicht warum? Vertonungen für Stimme, Violine, Cello, Klavier, Gläser, Shruti-Box und Spieluhren, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernhard Opitz (b. 1967), "Komm zu mir in der Nacht", 2001, first performed 2001 [ soprano, baritone, English horn, harp ], from »Neues aus Arkadien«: Drei Gesänge für Sopran, Bariton, Englischhorn und Harfe, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Ein Liebeslied", 1986/2005 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from 54 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Wagendristel (b. 1965), "Komm zu mir in der Nacht", op. 74 no. 2 (1998) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Drei Liebeslieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier , no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sybil Westendorp (1910 - 1999), "Ein Liebeslied", 1979 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Melanie Trumbull , Karl Bellenberg [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-20
Line count: 11
Word count: 87
Come to me in the night -- we shall sleep closely entwined. I am very weary, lonely from wakeful watching. A strange bird already sang to me in the dark early morning, When my dream was still wrestling with itself and with me. Flowers are opening beside all the water-springs And are colouring themselves with the immortelles of your eyes . . . . . Come to me in the night upon shoes studded with seven stars And love-shrouded, [come] late [in the night] into my tent. Moons rise from dusty chests of heaven. We shall rest in love like two rare animals In the high reeds behind this world.
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Translations of title(s):
"Ein Liebeslied" = "A love song"
"In der Nacht" = "In the night"
"Komm zu mir in der Nacht" = "Come to me in the night"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Ein Liebeslied", written 1943, appears in Mein blaues Klavier, in An ihn
This text was added to the website: 2024-02-07
Line count: 11
Word count: 109