by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
Verwelkte Blume
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Verwelkte Blume Menschenkind, Man senkt gelind Dich in die Erde hinunter, Dann wird ob Dir Der Rasen grün Und Blumen blühn, Und Du blühst mitten darunter.
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Note: this is Rückert's last poem, from January, 1866, a few days before his death.
Confirmed with Poetisches Tagebuch, von Friedrich Rückert. Aus seinem Nachlasse, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1888, page 550.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Poetisches Tagebuch [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 Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951), "Auf das letzte Blatt meiner Lieder", op. 67 no. 20, published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wolfgang Michael Rihm (b. 1952), "Verwelkte Blume ", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier späte Gedichte von Friedrich Rückert, no. 4, Wien (Vienna), Universal Editions [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Verwelkte Blume, Menschenkind" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-03
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