Schönes Leben! du liegst krank, und das Herz ist mir
Müd vom Weinen und schon dämmert die Furcht in mir,
[ ... ]
Acht Sätze nach Hölderlin-Fragmenten
Song Cycle by Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926)
1. Schönes Leben! du liegst krank, und das Herz ist mir [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Der gute Glaube", appears in Gedichte 1784-1800 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La bonne croyance", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Friedrich Hölderlin, Sämtliche Gedichte und Hyperion, Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1999, page 200.
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
2. Doch uns ist gegeben [sung text checked 1 time]
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Doch uns ist gegeben,
Auf keiner Stätte zu ruh'n;
Es schwinden, es fallen
Die leidenden Menschen
Blindlings von einer
Stunde [zur]1 andern,
Wie Wasser von Klippe
Zu Klippe geworfen,
Jahrlang in's Ungewisse hinab.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Hyperions Schicksalslied", written 1798, appears in Gedichte 1784-1800 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Cançó del destí", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Hyperions noodlotslied", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 1995
- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Hyperion's Song of Fate", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Canto del destino di Iperione", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Friedrich Hölderlin's Sämmtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Christoph Theodor Schwab, Erster Band: "Gedichte und Hyperion", Stuttgart und Tübingen, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1846, pages 122-123; note: the indentation shown above doesn't appear in this edition, but occurs in later editions.
Note: Hyperion is the title character of an unfinished novel in which Hölderlin wrote about the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks.
1 Cerha: "zu"Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
3. Es kommen Stunden, wo das erschütterte [sung text checked 1 time]
Es kommen Stunden, wo das erschütterte Gepreßte Herz umsonst in der Hoffnung Land Sich flüchtet, wo umsonst die erzenen Waffen die Weisheit entgegenstemmt.
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
4. Wie wenn die alten Wässer in andrem Zorn [sung text checked 1 time]
Wie wenn die alten Wässer in andrem Zorn In schrecklichem, verwandelt wieder Kämen, zu reinigen, da es Not war.
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
5. Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden [sung text checked 1 time]
Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden, Wie Wege sind, und wie der Berge Grenzen. Was hier wir sind, kann dort ein Gott ergänzen Mit Harmonien und ewigen Lohn und Frieden.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Les línies de la vida", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les lignes de la vie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
6. Und unstet wehn und irren, dem Chaos gleich [sung text checked 1 time]
Und unstet wehn und irren, dem Chaos gleich, Dem gärenden Geschlechte die Wünsche nach, Und wild ist und verzagt und kalt von Sorgen das Leben der Armen immer.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
7. Mit gelben Birnen hänget [sung text checked 1 time]
Mit gelben Birnen hänget Und voll mit wilden Rosen Das Land in den See, Ihr holden Schwäne, Und trunken von Küssen [[Tunkt]1 ihr das Haupt Ins heilignüchterne Wasser.]2 Weh mir, wo nehm' ich, wenn Es Winter ist, die Blumen, und wo Den Sonnenschein, Und Schatten der Erde? Die Mauern [stehn]3 Sprachlos und kalt, im Winde Klirren die Fahnen.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Hälfte des Lebens", appears in Gedichte 1800-1804, in Nachtgesänge [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La meitat de la vida", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The middle of life", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le milieu de la vie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , "Mi-temps de la vie", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Leath an tSaoil", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Müller: "Taucht"
2 omitted by Ligeti
3 Cerha: "stehen"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
8. So Füllen oder Garten dir labend ward [sung text checked 1 time]
[ ... ] [So Füllen oder Garten dir labend ward, Ratschlagend, Herzens wegen; wo bist du, Licht?]1 Das Herz ist wieder wach, doch herzlos Zieht die gewaltige Nacht mich immer. [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Chiron" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation]
1 omitted by Cerha (this movement has only two lines).
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 642