Tag meines Lebens!
Die Sonne sinkt.
Schon steht die glatte Flut vergüldet.
Warm atmet der Fels:
schlief wohl zu Mittag das Glück
auf ihm [seinen]1 Mittagsschlaf?
In grünen Lichtern spielt Glück
noch der braune Abgrund herauf.

Tag meines Lebens!
Gen Abends gehts!
Schon glüht dein Auge halb gebrochen,
schon quillt deines [Taues]2 Tränengeträufel,
[schon]3 läuft still über weiße Meere
deine Liebe Purpur,
deine letzte zögernde Seeligkeit.

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¹ Wolff: "den"
² Wolff: "Tau's"
³ Wolff: "und schon"

Text Authorship:

• by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), no title, appears in Dionysos-Dithyramben, in 3. Die Sonne sinkt, no. 2 [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 Conrad (Eduard Reinhold) Ansorge (1862 - 1930), "Die Sonne sinkt", op. 10 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Oskar Fried (1871 - 1941), "Die Sonne sinkt", op. 5 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Die Sonne sinkt", 1939 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustav Krug (1844 - 1902), "Die Sonne sinkt" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emil Mattiesen (1875 - 1939), "Die Sonne sinkt", op. 2 (Zwölf Gedichte ; für eine Singstimme und Klavier) no. 4, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig : Edition Peters [sung text not yet checked]
• by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Die Sonne sinkt", op. 320 (Fünf Lieder nach Friedrich Nietzsche) no. 1 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Tag meines Lebens!", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Dichtungen von Friedrich Nietzsche, no. 6, Stockholm, Lundquist [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Tag meines Lebens", op. 13 (Sechs Lieder nach verschiedenen Dichtern) no. 2, published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Rudolf Zwintscher (1871 - 1946), "Die Sonne sinkt", published 1900 [ baritone and piano ], from Drei Dionysos-Dithyramben für Baryton und Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Leipzig, (Jost) [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Erich Zeisl (1905 - 1959), "Die Sonne sinkt", 1931 [ baritone and piano ], unpublished
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "Day of my Life-Tide"

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