Nuit | Les nuages assombrissent la nuit et la vallée

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by Carl (Ferdinand Max) Hauptmann (1858 - 1921)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Dämmern Wolken über Nacht und Thal

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CAT ENG FRE ITA POR

Dämmern Wolken über Nacht und Thal,
Nebel schweben. Wasser rauschen sacht.
Nun entschleiert sich's mit einem Mal:
O gieb acht! gieb acht!

Weites Wunderland ist aufgethan,
Silbern ragen Berge traumhaft gross,
Stille Pfade silberlicht thalan
Aus verborg'nem Schoss.

Und die hehre Welt so traumhaft rein.
Stummer Buchenbaum am Wege steht
Schattenschwarz -- ein Hauch vom fernen Hain
Einsam leise [geht]¹.

Und aus tiefen Grundes Düsterheit
Blinken Lichter auf in [stumme]² Nacht.
Trinke Seele! trinke Einsamkeit!
O gieb acht! gieb acht!

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• A. Berg

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Confirmed with Carl Hauptmann Aus meinem Tagebuch, Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1900, page 213.

¹ Berg: "weht"
² Berg: "stummer"

Text Authorship:

by Carl (Ferdinand Max) Hauptmann (1858 - 1921), no title, appears in Aus meinem Tagebuch, first published 1900 [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Nacht", 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben frühe Lieder, no. 1, from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 76 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 82

Nuit

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Les nuages assombrissent la nuit et la vallée,
La brume flotte, l'eau murmure doucement.
Maintenant d'un seul coup le voile se lève :
Oh, prenez garde ! Oh, prenez garde !

Une vaste terre de merveilles s'est ouverte,
Des montagnes argentées s'élèvent fantastiquement grandes,
Des sentiers éclatants d'argent menaient à la vallée
Depuis des endroits cachés.

Et le noble monde est si fantastiquement pur.
Un buis muet se tient près du chemin,
Plein d'ombres noires ; une brise depuis un bosquet lointain
Souffle doucement.

Et depuis la profonde obscurité
Des lumières clignotent dans la nuit muette.
Bois, mon âme ! bois dans cette solitude !
Oh, prenez garde ! Oh, prenez garde !

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Carl (Ferdinand Max) Hauptmann (1858 - 1921), no title, appears in Aus meinem Tagebuch, first published 1900
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This text was added to the website: 2015-09-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 105