Du machst mich allein. Dich einzig kann ich vertauschen. Eine Weile bist du's, dann wieder ist es das Rauschen, oder es ist ein Duft ohne Rest. Ach, in den Armen hab ich sie alle verloren, du nur, du wirst immer wieder geboren: weil ich niemals dich anhielt, halt ich dich fest.
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- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Aus dem Nachlaß, in Lied, no. 3 [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 Natalie Bayada-Snoeren , "Lied" [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Rilke, no. 8c [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Du machst mich allein", op. 8 (Zwei Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 2 (1910) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918 - 1970), "Lied der Abelone", 1939 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Schott
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (T. P. (Peter) Perrin) , "You make me alone", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Toi seule me crée", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz) , no title, copyright ©
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Ради тебя я один. Тебя запомнил одну я [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke. Райнер Мария Рильке. Neue Gedichte der neuen Gedichte. Anderer Teil : Новые Стихотворения Новых Стихотворений. Вторая часть, Москва : Издательство Наука, 1977, page 308, in Песня Абелоны, no. 3.
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- by Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz (1934 - 2011), no title, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Aus dem Nachlaß, in Lied, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2024-03-07
Line count: 6
Word count: 42