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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

War ein Fenster offen? Ist der Sturm im...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
War ein Fenster offen? Ist der Sturm im Haus? 
Wer schlägt die Türen zu? 
Wer geht durch die Zimmer? -- Laß. 
Wer es auch sei. Ins Turmgemach findet er nicht. 
Wie hinter hundert Türen ist dieser große Schlaf, 
den zwei Menschen gemeinsam haben; 
so gemeinsam wie eine Mutter oder einen Tod.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Martin •   C. Pászthory 

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, Endgültige Fassung von 1906 Geschrieben 1899, Im Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig.

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke. Kommentiere Ausgabe in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel, Ulrich Fülleborn, Horst Nalewski, August Stahl, Band I Gedichte 1895 bis 1910, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel und Ulrich Fülleborn, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1996, page 150.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 22, first published 1906 [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):

  • by Paul von Klenau (1883 - 1946), "War ein Fenster offen?", 1918/1919, from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Kornetts Christoph Rilke, no. 22 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "War ein Fenster offen?", 1942 [ alto and chamber orchestra ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Casimir von Pászthory (1886 - 1966), "War ein Fenster offen? Ist der Sturm im Haus?", published 1912 [ reciter and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 23, Leipzig: Fr. Kistner & C.F.W. Siegel, 1919 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Ladislav Fikar (1920 - 1975) , copyright © ; composed by František Chaun.
    • Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]
  • Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985) , no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 22, copyright © ; composed by Lisa Bielawa.
    • Go to the text.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "Was there an open window?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Margaret Dows Herter Norton) , no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 22, copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Une fenêtre était-elle ouverte ?", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 50

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