Heimweh (Hartleben, set by 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), as Albert Giraud

Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Nostalgie

Language: French (Français)

Comme un doux soupir de cristal,
L'âme des vieilles comédies
Se plaint des allures raidies
Du lent Pierrot sentimental.

Dans son triste désert mental
Résonne en notes assourdies,
Comme un doux soupir de cristal,
L'âme des vieilles comédies.

Il désapprend son air fatal:
A travers les blancs incendies
Des lunes dans l'onde agrandies,
Son regret vole au ciel natal,
Comme un doux soupir de cristal.

Authorship

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Nostalgie", 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 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.

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Heimweh

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

Available translation(s): CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

 Lieblich klagend - ein krystallnes Seufzen
 Aus Italiens alter Pantomime,
 Klingts herüber: wie Pierrot so holzern,
 So modern sentimental geworden.

 Und es tönt durch seines Herzens Wüste,
 Tönt gedämpft durch alle Sinne wieder,
 Lieblich klagend - ein krystallnes Seufzen
 Aus Italiens alter Pantomime.

 Da vergißt Pierrot die Trauermienen!
 Durch den bleichen Feuerschein des Mondes,
 Durch des Lichtmeers Fluten - schweift die Sehnsucht
 Kühn hinauf, empor zum Heimathimmel
 Lieblich klagend - ein krystallnes Seufzen!

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), as Albert Giraud, "Nostalgie", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884

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by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Heimweh", op. 21 no. 15 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 15. [
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ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , title 1: "Homesickness", 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: 74