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Ein Tag durch den Troß. Flüche, Farben, Lachen -- : davon blendet das Land. Kommen bunte Buben gelaufen. Raufen und Rufen. Kommen Dirnen mit purpurnen Hüten im flutenden Haar. Winken. Kommen Knechte, schwarzeisern wie wandernde Nacht. Packen die Dirnen heiß, daß ihnen die Kleider zerreißen. Drücken sie an den Trommelrand. Und von der wilderen Gegenwehr hastiger Hände werden die Trommeln wach, wie im Traum poltern sie, poltern --. Und Abends halten sie ihm Laternen her, seltsame: Wein, leuchtend in eisernen Hauben. Wein? Oder Blut? -- Wer [kanns]1 unterscheiden?
H. Reutter sets lines 1-9
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View original text (without footnotes)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 144-145.
1 Martin: "kann es"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. 9, first published 1906 [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 Paul von Klenau (1883 - 1946), "Ein Tag durch den Troß", 1918/1919, from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Kornetts Christoph Rilke, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "Ein Tag durch den Troß", 1942 [ alto and chamber orchestra ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Casimir von Pászthory (1886 - 1966), "Ein Tag durch den Troß. Flüche, Farben, Lachen", 1914, first performed 1914 [ reciter and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 10, Leipzig: Fr. Kistner & C.F.W. Siegel, 1919 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "Ein Tag durch den Troß. Flüche, Farben, Lachen", op. 31 no. 2, published 1947, lines 1-9 [ medium voice and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 2, Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, London: Schott & Co. Ltd. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944), "Ein Tag durch den Troß. Flüche, Farben, Lachen", 1944 [ reciter and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, Erster Teil, no. 4, Mainz: Schott Music GmbH & Co., 1995 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Marco Zapparoli (b. 1960) , appears in L’Alfieri, copyright © ; composed by Hans Ludwig Hirsch.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "A day among the army train", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Un jour avec le train des équipages", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 86
A day among the army train. Swearing, colors, laughing: the country dazzles with it. Colorful boys come running. Tussling and yelling. Hussies with purple hats in their flood of hair. Signaling. Lansquenets come, iron-black as if the night were afoot. Hotly grabbing the hussies, so that their dresses are torn up. Pushing them against the edge of the drum. And the even wilder resistance of quick hands awakens the drums, as in a dream they rumble, rumble-. And in the evening they are holding lanterns for him, strange ones. Wine, aglow in iron helmets. Wine? Or Blood? Who can make out the difference?
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 9, first published 1906
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 103