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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Andere müssen
 (Sung text for setting by S. Ebel)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Andere müssen auf langen Wegen
zu den dunklen Dichtern gehn;
fragen immer irgendwen,
ob er nicht einen hat singen sehn
oder Hände auf Saiten legen.
Nur die Mädchen fragen nicht,
welche Brücke zu Bildern führe;
lächeln nur, lichter als Perlenschnüre,
die man an Schalen von Silber hält.

Aus ihrem Leben geht jede Türe
in einen Dichter
und in die Welt.

Composition:

    Set to music by Steven Ebel , "Andere müssen" [ narrator, tenor, and piano ], from Diary of a Young Poet (Tagebuch eines jungen Dichters), no. 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1900, appears in Das Buch der Bilder, in Von den Mädchen, no. 1

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-03-20
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Word count: 60

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