by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Du, der ichs nicht sage, daß ich bei...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Du, der ichs nicht sage, daß ich bei Nacht weinend liege, deren Wesen mich müde macht wie eine Wiege. Du, die mir nicht sagt, wenn sie wacht Meinetwillen: wie, wenn wir diese Pracht ohne zu stillen in uns ertrügen?
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, rilke.de/gedichte/lied.htm, Note: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1910, appears in Aus dem Nachlaß, in Lied, no. 1 [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 Natalie Bayada-Snoeren , "Lied" [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Rilke, no. 8a [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodor Blumer (1881 - 1964), "Du, der ich’s nicht sage" [ voice and piano ], from 5 Gesänge nach Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph von Eichendorff, Theodor Storm, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caterina Di Cecca , "Du, der ichs nicht sage", 2013, first performed 2013 [ female voice, piano and percussion ], Edizioni Suvini Zerboni [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Ganz (1890 - 1957), "Lied", 1942 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Junk (1875 - 1948), "Du, der ichs nicht sage", published 1911 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Julius Marx (1897 - 1985), "Du, der ich's nicht sage", op. 47 no. 1 (1946) [ mixed chorus ], from Rilke-Gesänge, no. 1, Baerenreiter Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Massimiliano Matesic (b. 1969), "Stille Liebe", 1998 [ voice and orchestra ], from Fünf Orchesterlieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Werner August Morgenthaler (1896 - 1964), "Du der ichs nicht sage" [ voice and piano ], from 7 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Schoendlinger (1919 - 1983), "Du der ichs nicht sage", c1950-1983 [ mixed chorus ], from Zwei Madrigale nach Worten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Schwickert (1855 - 1901), "Lied", op. 5 (Fünf Lieder von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 4, published 1900? [ high voice and orchestra ], Freiburg I. Br. : [G. Schwickert] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erich-Walter Sternberg (1891 - 1974), "Du, der ichs nicht sage" [ soprano and orchestra ], from Frühe Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Thilo , "Du, der ichs nicht sage", from Rilke-Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yury Semyonovich Vaikhansky (1958 - 2019), "Lied" [ voice and guitar ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grete von Zieritz (1899 - 2001), "Lied", op. 77 (5 Lieder) no. 2 (1943) [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Du, der ichs nicht sage", op. 8 (Zwei Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 1 (1910)
- by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918 - 1970), "Lied der Abelone", 1939 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Schott
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz (1934 - 2011) , no title, copyright © ; composed by Vladislav Mikhailovich Lebedev, Yury Semyonovich Vaikhansky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "You, whom I am not telling", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Toi, à qui je ne dis pas", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Jeroen Scholten , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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