by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Language: French (Français)
En hiver, la mort meurtrière entre dans les maisons ; elle cherche la sœur, le père, et leur joue du violon. Mais quand la terre remue sous la bêche du printemps, la mort court dans les rues et salue les passants.
Composition:
- Set to music by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "En hiver", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in 44. Printemps, no. 6
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- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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