Summer | At night-fall the cuckoo’s wail

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by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Sommer

(Sung text for setting by K. Löbl)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CHI ENG ENG FRE ITA

Am Abend schweigt die Klage
Des Kuckucks im Wald.
Tiefer neigt sich das Korn,
Der rote Mohn.

Schwarzes Gewitter droht
Über dem Hügel.
Das alte Lied der Grille
Erstirbt im Feld.

 ... 

Stille leuchtet die Kerze
Im dunklen Zimmer;
Eine silberne Hand
Löschte sie aus;
Windstille, sternlose Nacht.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,4 of the original text.

Composition:

Karl Maria Löbl

Text Authorship:

by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Sommer", appears in Sebastian im Traum, in Gesang des Abgeschiedenen

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "夏天", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Walter A. Aue) , "Summer", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Summer", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Été", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Estate", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-29
Line count: 17
Word count: 60

Summer

(Sung text translation for setting by K. Löbl)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

At night-fall the cuckoo’s wail
subsides in the woods.
Deeper bends down the corn,
the red poppy.

Black thunderstorm’s threat
o’er the hilltop.
The old song of the cricket
dies in the field.

 ... 

Calmly the candle gives light
in the dark chamber;
a silvery hand
extinguished it;
windless and starless night.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,4 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Sommer", appears in Sebastian im Traum, in Gesang des Abgeschiedenen
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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-20
Line count: 17
Word count: 64