Heimfahrt | Der Mondstrahl ist das Ruder

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud

Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Départ de Pierrot

Language: French (Français)

Un rayon de lune est la rame,
Un blanc nénuphar, la chaloupe ;
Il regagne, la brise en poupe,
Sur un fleuve pâle, Bergame.

Le flot chante une humide gamme
Sous la nacelle qui le coupe.
Un rayon de lune est la rame,
Un blanc nénuphar, la chaloupe.

Le neigeux roi du mimodrame
Redresse fièrement sa houppe ;
Comme du punch dans une coupe,
Le vague horizon vert s'enflamme.
- Un rayon de lune est la rame.

Text Authorship:

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Départ de Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [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 Géza Vilmos Zagon (1889 - 1918), "Départ de Pierrot", 1908-1909, first performed 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, poésies de Albert Giraud, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Heimfahrt", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.

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

Heimfahrt

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

Our translations: CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

Der Mondstrahl ist das Ruder,
Seerose dient als Boot;
Drauf fährt Pierrot gen Süden
Mit gutem Reisewind.

Der Strom summt tiefe Skalen
Und wiegt den leichten Kahn.
Der Mondstrahl ist das Ruder,
Seerose dient als Boot.

Nach Bergamo, zur Heimat,
Kehrt nun Pierrot zurück;
Schwach dämmert schon im Osten
Der grüne Horizont.
- Der Mondstrahl ist das Ruder.

Text Authorship:

by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Heimfahrt", 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, "Départ de Pierrot", 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 Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Heimfahrt", op. 4 no. 12 (1913), published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from 12 Gedichte aus Pierrot lunaire, no. 12, Berlin, N. Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Heimfahrt", subtitle: "Barcarole", op. 21 no. 20 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Heimfahrt", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 6, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Homeward journey", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 57