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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald.
Wie wir sie lieben lernten,
seit wir wissen, wie wunderbald
sie als weckender Regen prallt
an die träumenden Ernten.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke, kommentierte Ausgabe in vier Bänden, Band 1 Gedichte 1895 bis 1910, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel und Ulrich Fülleborn, Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1996, page 77.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald", appears in Frühe Gedichte, in Mir zur Feier [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 Hans Gebhard (1897 - 1947), "Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald", op. 5 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gesänge aus Mir zur Feier, no. 1, Berlin : Simrock Mk3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leila Lustig (b. 1944), "Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald", 2007 [ medium voice, string quartet ], from In nächtiger Luft, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Julius Marx (1897 - 1985), "Lauschende Wolke über dem Wald", op. 45 no. 3 (1943) [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder; aus den ''Frühen Gedichten", no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wim Zwaag (b. 1960), "Lauschende Wolke", 2007, first performed 2008 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from 10 Songs on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2007-02-25
Line count: 5
Word count: 24

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