Homesickness | Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh

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by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Translation © by Mimmi Fulmer, Ric Merritt

Heimweh

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

Our translations: 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!

Text Authorship:

by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Heimweh", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 [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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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Heimweh", op. 21 no. 15 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Heimweh", 1905?, published 1905 [ high voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 44, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "鄉愁", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Homesickness", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Nostalgie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Nostalgia", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Heimlengt", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 69

Homesickness

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh
 Out of the old Italian pantomime,
 It resonates in our time:  Why's Pierrot become
 So wooden, so sentimental modern?
 
 And it sounds through his heart's wasteland,
 Sounds an undertone through all his senses,
 Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh
 Out of the old Italian pantomime.
 
 Then Pierrot forgets the mask of tragedy!
 Through the moon's pale fireshine,
 Through the sea's light-tide-sails his yearning
 Bravely forth, heavenward home,
 Sweetly lamenting-a crystalline sigh.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Heimweh", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Nostalgie", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 74