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Ein kerzenheller Saal Und Sporengeläut und Tressengold. In meinen Adern klingt das Blut. Mein Mädchen, gib mir den Pokal! Und nun zum Tanz! Der Walzer tollt; Erhitzt vom Wein mein Brausemut Nach aller ungenossenen Lust begehrt -- Vor den Fenstern wiehert mein Pferd. Und vor den Fenstern hüllt die Nacht Das dunkle Feld. Es trägt der Wind Von fern Kanonendonner her. Noch eine Stunde bis zur Schlacht! -- Tanz rascher, Schatz; die Zeit verrinnt, Es wiegt der Sturm die Binsen hin und her, Die nächste Nacht mein Bette sind -- Mein Totenbett vielleicht. -- Juchhe, Musik! In durstigen Zügen trinkt mein heißer Blick Das junge, schöne, rote Leben ein, Und trinkt sich nimmer satt an seinem Licht. Noch einen Tanz! Wie bald! und Kerzenschein Und Klang und Lust verlischt; der Mondschein flicht Schwermütig seinen Kranz in Tod und Graus. -- Juchhe, Musik! Vom Tanz erbebt das Haus, Erregt am Pfeiler klirrt mein hängend Schwert. -- Vor den Fenstern wiehert mein Pferd.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 12-13.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Grande Valse", written 1897, appears in Chopin, no. 2 [author's text checked 2 times 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):
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Grande Valse", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-05
Line count: 25
Word count: 155
A hall bright with candlelight And rattling of spurs and the gold of tresses. My blood resounds in my veins. My girl, give me the goblet! And now to the dance! The waltz is romping; Heated by wine, my bubbling courage Desires all the joys I have not yet savoured -- Outside the windows my horse neighs. And outside the windows the night shrouds The dark field. From far away the wind Carries the thunder of cannons hither. Only one more hour to the battle! -- Dance more quickly, love; time is passing, The storm-wind is waving the broom bushes back and forth, [The bushes] that shall be my bed in the coming night -- My deathbed, perhaps. -- Hurrah, music! In thirsty draughts my hot gaze drinks in The young, beautiful, red life, And can never drink enough of its light to be satiated. Only one more dance! How soon! and candlelight And sound and joy shall be extinguished; mournfully The moonlight weaves its wreath in death and horror. -- Hurrah, music! The house quakes from the dance, Aquiver, my hanging sword rattles on the column. -- Outside the windows my horse neighs.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Grande Valse", written 1897, appears in Chopin, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-03
Line count: 25
Word count: 188