Ist das der Morgen? Welche Sonne geht auf? Wie groß ist die Sonne. Sind das Vögel? Ihre Stimmen sind überall. Alles ist hell, aber es ist kein Tag. Alles ist laut, aber es sind nicht Vogelstimmen. Das sind die Balken, die leuchten. Das sind die Fenster, die schrein. Und sie schrein, rot, in die Feinde hinein, die draußen stehn im flackernden Land, schrein: Brand. Und mit zerrissenem Schlaf im Gesicht drängen sich alle, halb Eisen, halb nackt, von Zimmer zu Zimmer, von Trakt zu Trakt und suchen die Treppe. Und mit verschlagenem Atem stammeln Hörner im Hof: Sammeln, sammeln! Und bebende Trommeln.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, Endgültige Fassung von 1906 Geschrieben 1899, Im Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig.
Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke. Kommentiere Ausgabe in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel, Ulrich Fülleborn, Horst Nalewski, August Stahl, Band I Gedichte 1895 bis 1910, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel und Ulrich Fülleborn, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1996, page 150.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 23, first published 1906 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Paul von Klenau (1883 - 1946), "Ist das der Morgen?", 1918/1919, from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Kornetts Christoph Rilke, no. 23 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ton de Leeuw (1926 - 1996), "Ist das der Morgen?", 1948, copyright © 1948 [ high voice and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 6, Amsterdam : Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "Ist das der Morgen?", 1942 [ alto and chamber orchestra ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 19 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Casimir von Pászthory (1886 - 1966), "Ist das der Morgen? Welche Sonne geht auf?", published 1912 [ reciter and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 24, Leipzig: Fr. Kistner & C.F.W. Siegel, 1919 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944), "Ist das der Morgen? Welche Sonne geht auf?", 1944 [ reciter and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, Zweiter Teil, no. 5, Mainz: Schott Music GmbH & Co., 1995 [sung text checked 1 time]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "Ist das der Morgen? Welche Sonne geht auf?", op. 31 no. 5, published 1947 [ medium voice and piano ], from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 5, Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, London: Schott & Co. Ltd.
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Ladislav Fikar (1920 - 1975) , copyright © ; composed by František Chaun.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985) , no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 23, copyright © ; composed by Lisa Bielawa.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Margaret Dows Herter Norton) , no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 23, copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Is this the morning? What sun is rising? ...
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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.View text with all available footnotes
Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 23, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 23, first published 1906
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968), "Storm in the House", first performed 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 5
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Ladislav Fikar (1920 - 1975) , copyright © ; composed by František Chaun.
- Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]
- Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]
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