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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Départ
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG GER GER
Mon amie, il faut que je parte.
Voulez-vous voir
l'endroit sur la carte?
C'est un point noir.
En moi, si la chose
bien me réussit, ce sera
un point rose 
dans un vert pays.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), from Poèmes français.  [author's text not yet checked 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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Départ", op. 27 no. 5 (1950-1), published 1952 [voice and piano], from Mélodies passagères, no. 5, Schirmer [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , title 1: "Departure", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , title 1: "Partença", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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: 34

Abreise
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Mein Liebling, ich muss mich auf den Weg machen.
Möchtest du den Ort 
auf der Karte sehen?
Er ist ein schwarzer Punkt.
In mir wird er,
wen die Sache gelingt,
ein rosa Punkt 
in einem grünen Land.

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  • Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 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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  • a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), from Poèmes français.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

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