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:
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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: 73
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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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 74