by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943)
Wartet..., das schmeckt ... Schon ists...
Language: German (Deutsch)
H. Birtwistle sets line 2
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Sonette an Orpheus, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923
1 Birtwistle: "Wenig Musik nur."Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 15
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This text was added to the website: 2023-07-20
Line count: 14
Word count: 95
Dance the Orange Matches base text
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Wait..., that tastes good.... But already it's gone [ ... ]
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Composition:
- Set to music by Richard Danielpour (b. 1956), "Dance the Orange", subtitle: "Sonnet XV", 1994, published 1995 [ baritone and chamber orchestra ], from Sonnets to Orpheus (Book I), no. 2, Associated Music Publishers
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 15
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-17
Line count: 14
Word count: 108