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by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910)
Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Det første Møde
 (Sung text for setting by E. Grieg)
 See original
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Det første mødes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens sidste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.

Note: another form of the text can be found in Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. Samlede Værker, Mindeutgave, Første bind, Kristiania og Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1910, p. 80:

Det første møtes sødme,
det er som sang i skogen,
det er som sang på vågen
i solens siste rødme, --
det er som horn i uren,
de tonende sekunder,
hvori vi med naturen
forenes i et under.

Note: White uses "forenes Inett under" as the last line (possibly a typo).

Composition:

    Set to music by Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Det første Møde", op. 21 no. 1 (1870), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], see the footnotes section above

Text Authorship:

  • by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), no title, appears in Fiskerjenten

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Nigel Parker) , "The sweetness of a first meeting", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La première rencontre", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Franz von Holstein) , "Erstes Begegnen"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

La première rencontre
 (Sung text translation for setting by E. Grieg)
 See original
Language: French (Français)  after the Norwegian (Bokmål) 
La douceur de la première rencontre
est comme un chant dans la forêt,
est comme un chant sur la vague
dans la dernière rougeur du soleil,
elle est comme le cor sur le versant,
les instants résonnants
où avec la nature
nous sommes unis miraculeusement.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Norwegian (Bokmål) to French (Français) copyright © 2012 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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  • a text in Norwegian (Bokmål) by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832 - 1910), no title, appears in Fiskerjenten
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This text was added to the website: 2012-04-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

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