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[Die sinkende Sonne weint blutig auf starren Schnee...]1 Leise [leise]1 hör' ich dich singen, Sancta Maria... "Mein Mund ist wund und weh, ich [hab']2 ihn geküßt. Mein Leib ist krank und kalt, ich [hab']2 ihn gewärmt. Mein Herz ist hohl und tot, ich [hab']2 ihn geliebt"... [Leise im Traum]3 hör' ich dich singen, Sancta Maria...
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Alfred Mombert, Tag und Nacht, Zweite veränderte Auflage, J.C.C.Bruns, Minden i.W., 1902, page 94.
1 omitted by Marx.2 Marx: "habe"
3 Marx: "Leise, wie im Traume"
Authorship
- by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Winterabend", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte [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 Elsa Gregory (flourished 1900-20), "Winterabend" [voice and piano], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 3 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Winterabend", op. 6 no. 3 (1906), published <<1925 [voice and piano], from Mombert-Lieder, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Sankta Maria", 1911, published 1912 [high voice and piano], in Lieder und Gesänge, III. Folge, Nr. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Sancta Maria" [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ladislav Vycpálek (1882 - 1969), "Winterabend", op. 5 no. 2, published 1923, from Visionen: Tuchy a Vidiny, no. 2, also set in Czech (Čeština) [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Ladislav Vycpálek (1882 - 1969) ENG ; composed by Ladislav Vycpálek.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2007-09-22
Line count: 6
Word count: 55
[The sinking sun weeps bloody [tears] upon the stark snow . . .]1 I hear you singing quietly [quietly]1, Holy Mary . . . "My lips are sore and aching, I kissed him. My body is sick and cold, I warmed him. My heart is hollow and dead, I loved him" . . . [Quietly in a dream]3 I hear you singing, Holy Mary . . .
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Sankta Maria" = "Holy Mary"
"Sancta Maria" = "Holy Mary"
"Winterabend" = "Winter evening"
2 Marx: "Quietly, as in a dream,"
Authorship
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2017 by Sharon Krebs, (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 German (Deutsch) by Alfred Mombert (1872 - 1942), "Winterabend", appears in Tag und Nacht: Gedichte
This text was added to the website: 2017-05-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 67