Abendläuten | In deine langen Wellen

by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)

Abendläuten

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

In deine langen Wellen,
tiefe Glocke
leg ich die leise Stimme
meiner Traurigkeit;
in deinem Schwingen
löst sie
sanft sich auf,
verschwistert nun
dem ewigen Gesang
der Lebensglocke,
Schicksalsglocke,
die 
zu unsern Haupten
läutet, läutet, läutet.

Confirmed with Ich und die Welt. Gedichte von Christian Morgenstern, Verlag von Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin, 1898, page 140.

Note: in Marx's manuscript, there's a mistake in line 5: "in deinen Schwingen"

Text Authorship:

by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "Abendläuten", appears in Ich und die Welt [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "In deine langen Wellen", 1919 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Abendläuten", op. 57 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1, published 1921 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Ippisch (1883 - 1958), "Abendläuten", 1936 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Abendläuten" [sung text not yet checked]
by Hilde Kocher-Klein (1894 - 1975), "Abendläuten", op. 70 no. 2 [ low voice and piano ], from Horch, o Seele. 5 Lieder für tiefe Stimme und Klavier, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Abendläuten" [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Abendläuten", op. 11 no. 7 (1933-4) [sung text not yet checked]
by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Abendläuten", op. 51 no. 1 (1910), from Abendlieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2004-07-10
Line count: 14
Word count: 36