by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Voilà la nuit t'ouvrant ses bras...
Language: French (Français)
Voilà la nuit t'ouvrant ses bras d'espace Vas-y te blottir comme un jeune amant, ferme les yeux à ce moindre vent et tu auras sa face sur ta face
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Inner Sky Poems, Notes, Dreams , David R. Godine, Publisher, 2010, p.114
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1911 [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 Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Voilà la nuit t'ouvrant ses bras d'espace", 2015, copyright © 2015 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq frangments français de Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2, Mainz ; London ; Paris [etc.] : Schott [sung text not yet checked]
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