by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Wir saßen beide in Gedanken
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wir saßen beide in Gedanken im Weinblattdämmer — du und ich — und über uns in duftgen Ranken versummte wo ein Hummel sich. Reflexe hielten, bunte Kreise, in deinem Haare flüchtig Rast.... Ich sagte nichts als einmal leise: "Was du für schöne Augen hast."
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1918
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Traumgekrönt, in Lieben, no. 6 [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 Jörn Arnecke (b. 1973), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", published 1998 [ medium voice and piano ], from Strophen zum Wir. Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1, Edition Gravis Bad Schwalbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", 1925, published 1929 [ soprano and piano ], from Rilke Lieder, no. 3, from Rilke-Lieder, no. 11, Wien : Edition Vienna, Rudolf Jamnig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy Kehrer (1902 - 1976), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken" [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy Kehrer (1902 - 1976), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", op. 28, Heft 1 (Lieben) no. 8 (1922), first performed 1938 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano (ad libitum) and piano ], from Eine Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Stunde, no. 8, Thüringen : Willy-Kehrer-Archiv Schmölln [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", op. 99 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from Von der Liebe, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Konietzny (1910 - 1983), "Wir sassen beide in Gedanken" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ignace Lilien (1897 - 1964), "In Weinblattdämmer", 1922, copyright © 1960 [ low voice or medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Gedichte von R.M. Rilke, no. 5, Amsterdam : Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kurt Pahlen (1907 - 2003), "Wir saßen beide", 1927 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adrian Pop (b. 1951), "Wir sassen beide" [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Liebeslieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Manfred Spiller (b. 1932), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", op. 4 no. 4 (1958-79) [ voice and piano ], from Liederbuch, no. 4, Edition Gravis Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stefan Georg Winkler (b. 1931), "Wir saßen beide in Gedanken", 1957 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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