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Das ist des Frühlings traurige Lust! Die blühenden Mädchen, die wilde Schar, Sie stürmen dahin mit flatterndem Haar Und Jammergeheul und entblößter Brust: "Adonis! Adonis!" Es sinkt die Nacht. Bei Fackelschein Sie suchen hin und her im Wald, Der angstverwirret widerhallt Vom Weinen und Lachen und Schluchzen und Schreien: "Adonis! Adonis!" Das wunderschöne Jünglingsbild, Es liegt am Boden blaß und tot, Das Blut färbt alle Blumen rot, Und Klagelaut die Luft erfüllt: "Adonis! Adonis!"
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Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Frühlingsfeier", appears in Neue Gedichte, in Romanzen, no. 2 [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 Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Adonis, Frühlingsfeier", op. 70 (24 Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Beglteitung des Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yehezkel Braun (b. 1922), "Frühlingsfeier", 2006, published 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from Spätlese aus Heinrich Heines Gedichte, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. Lehman Engel (b. 1910), "Adonis: Ballett von Ruth Page ... nach dem Gedicht Frühlingsfeier von Heinrich Heine", first performed 1944 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Frühlingsfeier", 2008, published c2008 [ high voice and piano ], from Romanzen, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Frühlingsfeier", op. 39 (Sechs Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 1, published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Géza Frid (1904 - 1989), "Frühlingsfeier", op. 41a (Drie Romances voor sopraan en orkest) no. 3 (1952), published 1955 [ soprano and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz von Holstein (1826 - 1878), "Frühlingsmythus", op. 45, published 1880 [ soprano, women's chorus, and orchestra ], Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ture Rangström (1884 - 1947), "Frühlingsfeier", 1924/1944 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Frühlingsfeier", op. 56 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 (1906), published 1908 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Urbancic (1903 - 1958), "Frühlingsfeier", 1920? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Frühlingsfeier", 1909 [ women's chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lothar Windsperger (1885 - 1935), "Das ist des Frühlings traurige Lust", op. 24 no. 6, published 1935 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bernardino Zendrini (1839 - 1879) ; composed by Filippo Filippi.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , "Spring festival", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 212, first published 1887
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Fête du printemps", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "La fiesta de la primavera", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 74
¡Éste es el triste placer de la primavera! Las florecientes muchachas, en salvaje comitiva, irrumpen con los cabellos revueltos aullando de dolor y con el pecho desnudo: "¡Adonis ¡Adonis!" Cae la noche. A la luz de las antorchas buscan por todas partes en el bosque, que, confuso de terror, resuena entre llantos y risas, suspiros y gritos: "¡Adonis ¡Adonis!" El hermosísimo joven, está tendido en el suelo, pálido y muerto. La sangre tiñe todas las flores de rojo, y un sonido lastimero llena el aire: "¡Adonis ¡Adonis!"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2004 by Alfredo García, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Frühlingsfeier", appears in Neue Gedichte, in Romanzen, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2004-06-14
Line count: 15
Word count: 88