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Early poems

Song Cycle by Seymour J. Shifrin (b. 1926)

Der Bach hat leise Melodien

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Der Bach hat leise Melodien,
und fern ist Staub und Stadt.
die Wipfel winken her und hin
und machen mich sо matt.

Der Wald ist wild, die Welt ist weit,
mein Herz ist hell und groß.
es hält die blasse Einsamkeit
mein Haupt in ihrem Schoß.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Gaben. An verschiedene Freunde, no. 3 [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):

Set by Seymour J. Shifrin (b. 1926), 1947 [ high voice and piano ], Register to The Seymour Shifrin Papers

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1918


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

Weisst du

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen
leise aus lautem Kreis,
wenn ich erst die bleichen
Sterne über den Eichen
blühen weiß.

Wege will ich erkiesen,
die selten wer betritt
in blassen Abendwiesen -
und keinen Traum, als diesen:
Du gehst mit.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen", appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 6 [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):

Set by Seymour J. Shifrin (b. 1926), 1947 [ high voice and piano ]

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke,R.M.,Gesammelte Werke (Gedichte), Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2020


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 86
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