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Du heilig, glühend Abendroth! Der Himmel will in Glanz zerrinnen, So scheiden [Märtyrer]1 von hinnen Holdlächelnd in dem Liebestod. Des Aufgangs Berge still und grau, Am Grab des Tags die hellen Gluten, Der Schwan auf purpurrothen Fluten, Und jeder Halm im Silberthau! O Sonne, Gottesstrahl, du bist Nie herrlicher, als im [Entfliehen]2, Du willst uns gern [hinüber ziehen]3, Wo deines Glanzes Urquell ist.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Poetische Werke von Aloys Schreiber. Erster Band. Tübingen, bei Heinrich Laupp. 1817, page 67; with Aloys Schreiber's Gedichte. Erster Theil. Neueste Auflage. Wien 1817. Bey B. Ph. Bauer, pages 68-69; and with Solothurnisches Wochenblatt für 1815. Herausgegeben von Freunden der vaterländischen Geschichte. Solothurn bey Ludwig Vogelsang, obrigkeitlichem Buchdrucker, Nro. 45. Samstag, den 11 November 1815, page 592.
1 Schreiber (Wien 1817 edition), and Schubert: "Märterer"2 Schubert: "Entfliehn"
3 Schubert: "hinüberziehn"
Authorship
- by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Abendrot", op. posth. 173 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, D 627 (1818), published 1867 [ bass, piano ], C. A. Spina, VN 19179, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het avondrood", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The glow of sunset", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Coucher de soleil", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Rosso di sera", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 63
Sacred, glowing sunset! The sky positively melts into splendour; thus do martyrs depart, smiling sweetly as they die for love. The mountains, still and grey at dawn, are bright with fire as the day dies; the swan on purple-red water, every blade glistening with silver dew! O sun, God's light, you are never more magnificent than when you are withdrawing! You draw us gladly after you to find the source of your resplendence.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74