Tief von fern | Aus des Abends weißen Wogen

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Aus des Abends weißen Wogen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE NOR

Aus des Abends weißen Wogen
taucht ein Stern;
still von fern
kommt der blasse Mond gezogen.

Fern, ach fern
aus des Morgens grauen Wogen,
langt der stille blasse Bogen
nach dem Stern.

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Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), no title, appears in Erlösungen; eine Seelenwandlung in Gedichte und Sprüche, in Zweite Stufe: Liebe, in Natur und Sehnsucht, no. 3, first published 1891 [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 Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Tief von fern", op. 25 (Zehn Lieder) no. 7 (1930) [sung text not yet checked]
by Siegmund von Hausegger (1872 - 1948), "Tief von fern", published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 30, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Tief von fern", 1901-4, from Acht frühe Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov (1896 - 1944) , "Издали" ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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Researcher for this page: Jeroen Scholten

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