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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Die Braut
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ruf mich, Geliebter, ruf mich laut!
Laß deine Braut nicht so lange am Fenster stehn.
In den alten Platanenalleen
wacht der Abend nicht mehr:
sie sind leer.

Und kommst du mich nicht in das nächtliche Haus
mit deiner Stimme verschließen,
so muß ich mich aus meinen Händen hinaus
in die Gärten des Dunkelblaus
ergießen …

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch der Bilder, Berlin/ Leipzig/ Stuttgart : Axel Junker Verlag, 1906, p.19


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Die Braut", written 1898, appears in Das Buch der Bilder [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), "Die Braut", 1974 [ baritone, soprano and piano ], from Die Braut - Die Stille, no. 1, Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Kurt Rapf (1922 - 2007), "Die Braut", 1981 [ soprano and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl-Heinz Schäfer (1899 - 1970), "Die Braut", op. 1a (Fünf Lieder) (1932) [ soprano and piano ], Würzburg : Holm Pälz [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gisela Schlesinger Selden-Goth (1884 - 1975), "Die Braut" [ voice and piano ], Berlin-Halensee : Harmonie [sung text not yet checked]

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