Orestes a Tàurida | És aquesta la Tàurida, on Pythia

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by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Orest auf Tauris

(Sung text for setting by F. Schubert)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Ist dies Tauris, wo der Eumeniden
Wuth zu stillen, Pythia versprach?
Weh, die Schwestern mit den Schlangenhaaren
Folgen mir vom Land der Griechen nach!
Rauhes Eyland, kündest keinen Segen:
Nirgends sproßt der Ceres milde Frucht.
Keine Reben blühn, der Lüfte Sänger,
Wie die Schiffe, meiden diese Bucht.

Steine fügt die Kunst nicht zu Gebäuden,
Zelte spannt des Scythen Armuth sich;
Unter starren Felsen, rauhen Felsen
Ist das Leben einsam, schauerlich!
Und hier soll, so ist ja doch ergangen
An den Flehenden der heilige Spruch:
Eine hohe Priesterin Dianens 
Lösen meinen und der Väter Fluch.

Note: Schubert received Mayrhofer's texts generally in handwriting; the printed edition of Mayrhofer's poems appeared much later and presents the texts usually in a revised version.

Composition:

Franz Peter Schubert

Text Authorship:

by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Der landende Orest"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Orestes a Tàurida", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Orestes op Tauris", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Oreste en Tauride", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Oreste in Tauride", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 99

Orestes a Tàurida

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Schubert)

See original

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

És aquesta la Tàurida, on Pythia
prometé calmar la còlera de les Eumènides?
Ai de mi! Les germanes dels cabells llargs
em segueixen des de la terra dels grecs.
Illa agresta, no anuncies cap bona astrugància;
enlloc broten els dolços fruits de Ceres;
la vinya no floreix, els cantaires de l’aire,
com els vaixells, defugen aquesta badia.

L’art no afegeix pedres per construir,
damunt la misèria els escites paren les tendes;
enmig de roques ertes, boscos salvatges,
la vida és solitària, espantosa!
“I aquí” així ha estat anunciat 
al suplicant per l’oracle sagrat,
“una alta sacerdotessa de Diana,
anul•larà la maledicció del meu pare i la meva.”

Note: this is a translation of Schubert's sung text.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Der landende Orest"
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 107