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Und wie mag die Liebe dir kommen sein? Kam sie wie ein Sonnen, ein Blütenschein, Kam sie wie ein Beten? -- Erzähle: Ein Glück löste leuchtend [aus Himmeln]1 sich los Und hing mit gefalteten Schwingen groß An meiner blühenden Seele.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Berg: "vom Himmel"
Authorship
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1896, appears in Traumgekrönt, in Lieben, 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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Liebe", 1904-5 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. I (1901-04), no. 28 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oskar Fried (1871 - 1941), "Lieben", op. 7 (Sieben Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Sakolowski (1872 - 1913), "Lieben", op. 18 (4 Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Herrn. Seemann Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz (August Julius) Schreker (1878 - 1934), "Und wie mag die Liebe", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus der Reifezeit, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Uwe Strübing (b. 1956), "Und wie mag die Liebe dir kommen sein?", op. 102 no. 1 (2009) [ voice and piano ], from „…zu jenem tiefsten Grunde des Tönens…“. 9 Lieder für Stimme und Klavier, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Siegfried Thiele (b. 1934), "Und wie mag die Liebe", 1978 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "And how might Love have come to you?", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "Amour", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Jeroen Scholten
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 39
And how might Love have come to you? Did Love come like sunshine, like the glow of blossoms? Did it come like Praying? Tell! A brilliant joyfulness detached itself from heaven And hung with large folded wings From my blossoming soul.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Knut W. Barde, (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 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1896, appears in Traumgekrönt, in Lieben, no. 1
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 41