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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Rühmen, das ists! Ein zum Rühmen...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Rühmen, das ists! Ein zum Rühmen Bestellter,
[ging er hervor wie das]1 Erz aus des Steins
Schweigen. [Sein Herz, o vergängliche Kelter]1
eines den Menschen unendlichen Weins.

Nie versagt ihm die Stimme am Staube,
wenn ihn das göttliche Beispiel ergreift.
Alles wird Weinberg, alles wird Traube,
in seinem fühlenden Süden gereift.

Nicht in den Grüften der Könige Moder
straft ihm die Rühmung lügen, oder
daß von den Göttern ein Schatten fällt.

Er ist einer der bleibenden Boten,
der noch weit in die Türen der Toten
Schalen mit rühmlichen Früchten hält.

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•   H. Birtwistle 

H. Birtwistle sets line 2-3

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Sonette an Orpheus, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923.

1 omitted by Birtwistle.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 7 [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 Harrison Birtwistle, Sir (1934 - 2022), "Elegy 7, Sonnet I, 7", 2003-04, first performed 2004, line 2-3 [ oboe, harp and countertenor ], from Orpheus elegies, no. 18, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Edler (1912 - 1986), "Sonett 7 (Solo mit Männer-Sprechchor)", op. 59 no. 4 (1970) [ tenor, speaker, chorus and orchestra ], from Sonette an Orpheus, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Rühmen, das ists!", copyright © 2012 [ tenor and piano ], from Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 7, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Carlos Claudio Spies (1925 - 2020), "Rühmen", 1981 [ soprano, clarinet, trumpet, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 92

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