Raub (Hartleben, set by Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929)

Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Pierrot voleur

Language: French (Français)

Les rouges rubis souverains,
Injectés de meurtre et de gloire,
Sommeillent au creux d'une-armoire
Dans l'horreur des longs souterrains.

Pierrot, avec des malandrins,
Veut ravir un jour, après boire,
Les rouges rubis souverains,
Injectés de meurtre et de gloire.

Mais la peur hérisse leurs crins:
Parmi le velours et la moire,
Comme des yeux dans l'ombre noire,
S'enflamment du fond des écrins
Les rouges rubis souverains!

Authorship

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Pierrot voleur", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN ; composed by Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.

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Raub

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Available translation(s): CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

Rote, fürstliche Rubine,
Blutge Tropfen alten Ruhmes,
Schlummern in den Totenschreinen,
Drunten in den Grabgewolben.

Nachts, mit seinen Zechkumpanen,
Steigt Pierrot hinab - zu rauben
Rote, fürstliche Rubine,
Blutge Tropfen alten Ruhmes.

Doch da - strauben sich die Haare,
Bleiche Furcht bannt sie am Platze:
Durch die Finsternis - wie Augen! -
Stieren aus den Totenschreinen
Rote, fürstliche Rubine.

Authorship

by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on

a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Pierrot voleur", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884

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by Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Raub", op. 4 no. 2 (1913), published 1913 [voice and piano], from 12 Gedichte aus Pierrot lunaire, no. 2, Berlin, N. Simrock [
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by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Raub", op. 21 no. 10 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 10. [
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ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , title 1: "Theft", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Text added to the website: 2003-11-16 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:00
Line count: 13
Word count: 59