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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Weltenweiter Wandrer
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weltenweiter Wandrer
walle fort in Ruh ...
also kennt kein andrer
Menschenleid wie du.

Wenn mit lichtem Leuchten
du beginnst den Lauf,
schlägt der Schmerz die feuchten
Augen zu dir auf.

Drinnen liegt – als riefen
sie dir zu: Versteh! –
tief in ihren Tiefen
eine Welt voll Weh ...

Tausend Tränen reden
ewig ungestillt,
und in einer jeden
spiegelt sich dein Bild!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Traumgekrönt, in Träumen, no. 17, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Wilhelm von Baselli , "Weltenweiter Wanderer", 1950? [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 3, Wien : Wilhelm von Baselli  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viggo Brodersen (1879 - 1965), "Weltenweiter Wandrer", op. 26 (Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 4, copyright © 1925 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Steingräber [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Siegfried Fournes (1896 - 1932), "Weltenweiter Wandrer", copyright © 1978 [ voice and piano ], from Gesamtausgabe der Lieder von Siegfried Fournes, no. 15, Steinkirchen : G. Fournes [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Gessinger (1899 - 1986), "Weltenweiter Wandrer", op. 18 (Drei Konzertlieder) no. 3 (1931/32), published 2005, first performed 1932 [ high voice and piano ], Julius Gessinger MusikVerlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Josef Grümmer (b. 1952), "Weltenweiter Wandrer" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Walther Klein (1882 - 1961), "Weltenweiter Wandrer" [  voice ], from Traume [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Weltenweiter Wandrer", op. 67 no. 4 (1996) [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-09-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 61

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