Gebet an Pierrot (Hartleben, set by (Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander)) (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)

Supplique

Language: French (Français)

Pierrot! Le ressort du rire,
Entre mes dents je l'ai cassé:
Le clair décor s'est effacé
Dans un mirage à la Shakespeare.

Au mât de mon triste navire
Un pavillon noir est hissé:
O Pierrot! Le ressort du rire,
Entre mes dents je l'ai cassé.

Quand me rendras-tu, porte-lyre,
Guérisseur de l'esprit blessé,
Neige adorable du passé,
Face de Lune, blanc messire,
O Pierrot! le ressort du rire?

Authorship

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Supplique", 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, Otto Vrieslander.

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Word count: 68

Gebet an Pierrot

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

Available translation(s): CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

Pierrot! Mein Lachen
Hab ich verlernt!
Das Bild des Glanzes
Zerfloß - Zerfloß!

Schwarz weht die Flagge
Mir nun vom Mast.
Pierrot! Mein Lachen
Hab ich verlernt!

O gieb mir wieder,
Roßarzt der Seele,
Schneemann der Lyrik,
Durchlaucht vom Monde,
Pierrot - mein Lachen!

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), "Supplique", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884

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), "Gebet an Pierrot", op. 4 no. 1 (1913), published 1913 [voice and piano], from 12 Gedichte aus Pierrot lunaire, no. 1, Berlin, N. Simrock [
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by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Gebet an Pierrot", op. 21 no. 9 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 9. [
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by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Gebet an Pierrot" [voice and piano], in Strandgut. Münchner literarisch-künsterlische Monatsschrift, 20. April 1905, pp. 59-60 [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , title 1: "Prayer to Pierrot", 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: 44