Das war der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen | Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CAT CAT ENG FRE ITA POR

Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen, --
mir bangte fast vor seiner schweren Pracht...
Und dann, dann kamst du mir die Seele nehmen
tief in der Nacht.

Mir war so bang, und du kamst lieb und leise, --
ich hatte grad im Traum an dich gedacht.
Du kamst, und leis wie eine Märchenweise
erklang die Nacht....

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Confirmed with Erste Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke, Leipzig, Im Insel-Verlag, 1913.

Note: some lines of this poem were used in Zanettovich's Lied (mond - nacht - liebes - traum - lied)

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Traumgekrönt, in Lieben, 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 Hans Altmann (1904 - 1961), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 38 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm von Baselli , "Das war der Tag der Chrysanthemen", 1950? [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolf Beck (1891 - 1972), "Das war der Tag ...", op. 24 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 (1957) [ voice and piano ], Wien : Waldheim-Eberle [sung text not yet checked]
by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Traumgekrönt", 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben frühe Lieder, no. 4, from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 73 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Traumgekrönt", 2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hugo Daffner (1882 - 1936), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 79 (Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 4, published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst G. Elsaesser , "Traumgekrönt", 1936 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gesänge, no. 1, Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
by Fidelio Friedrich Finke (1891 - 1968), "Das war der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen...", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 3, Wien, Leipzig : Universal-Edition [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Fuchs-Schönbach (1894 - 1975), "Das war der Tag", op. 59 (Sieben Lieder) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Fürstenthal (1920 - 2016), "Der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen" [ voice and piano ], from Spätlese III, no. 4, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Hermann (1870 - 1931), "Das war der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen", from Liederreihe, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Es war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 61 (Elf Lieder) no. 10 (1914), published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Gottfried Katzenschlager (b. 1937), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 117 no. 4, published 2002 [ voice and piano ], from Im Abendgarten, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Willy Kehrer (1902 - 1976), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 28, Heft 1 (Lieben) no. 7 (1922), first performed 1938 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano (ad libitum) and piano ], from Eine Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Stunde, no. 7, Thüringen : Willy-Kehrer-Archiv Schmölln [sung text not yet checked]
by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Das war der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen", op. 56 no. 20 [ voice and piano ], from 27 Lieder zu Gedichte von R. M. Rilke, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Das war der Tag", op. 99 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Von der Liebe, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Clemens Krauss (1893 - 1954), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen" [ voice and piano ], from Acht Gesänge nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Maria Löbl (1911 - 1942), no title, from Heimliche Lieder der Liebe, nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Maux (1893 - 1971), "Chrysanthemen", op. 337, published 1935 [ voice and piano ], Wien : A. Robitschek Kommverlag [sung text not yet checked]
by Erich Mitzscherlich (1906 - 1985), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 12 (Sechs Lieder nach Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 4 (1948-1956) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Möckl (1925 - 2014), "Das war der Tag", MWV292 no. 3 [ high voice and piano ], from Von erster Liebe, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 21 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [ voice and piano ], Ries & Erler Berlin [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Nessler , "Das war der Tag", 1935 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Kurt Pahlen (1907 - 2003), "Das war der Tag", 1927 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rilke, no. 2, from 9 Lieder von Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm Rettich (1892 - 1988), "Das war der Tag", op. 23 (Drei Rilke Lieder) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Josef Riese (b. 1894), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Lieben, no. 2, Wien : Vienna-Edition, Rudolf Jamnig [sung text not yet checked]
by Gisela Schlesinger Selden-Goth (1884 - 1975), "Das war der Tag" [ voice and piano ], Berlin : Harmonie [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton Schoendlinger (1919 - 1983), "Das war der Tag", 1981 [ voice and piano ], from 14 Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Uwe Strübing (b. 1956), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", op. 102 no. 2 (2009) [ voice and piano ], from „…zu jenem tiefsten Grunde des Tönens…“. 9 Lieder für Stimme und Klavier, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerhart von Westermann (1894 - 1963), "Das war der Tag...", op. 1 (Vier Lieder) no. 1, copyright © 1940 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin : Ed. Bote & G. Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Stefan Georg Winkler (b. 1931), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen", 1957 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Würz (1885 - 1965), "Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Wim Zwaag (b. 1960), "Das war der Tag der weissen Chrysanthemen", 2007 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from 10 Songs on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Betz (1898 - 1946) ; composed by Émile Goué.
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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Renier van der Velden, Pierre Weill.
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