Dypt fra det fjerne | Opp fra kveldens hvite bølger

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Marianne Beate Kielland

Aus des Abends weißen Wogen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE NOR

Aus des Abends weißen Wogen
taucht ein Stern;
[still]¹ von fern
kommt der [blasse]² Mond gezogen.

[Fern, ach fern]³
aus des Morgens grauen Wogen,
langt der [stille]⁴ blasse Bogen
nach dem Stern.

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• A. Webern

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¹ Webern: "tief"
² Webern: "junge"
³ Webern: "Tief von fern,"
⁴ Webern: "große"

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), no title, appears in Erlösungen; eine Seelenwandlung in Gedichte und Sprüche, in Zweite Stufe: Liebe, in Natur und Sehnsucht, no. 3, first published 1891 [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 Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Tief von fern", op. 25 (Zehn Lieder) no. 7 (1930) [sung text not yet checked]
by Siegmund von Hausegger (1872 - 1948), "Tief von fern", published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 30, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Tief von fern", 1901-4, from Acht frühe Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov (1896 - 1944) , "Издали" ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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Researcher for this page: Jeroen Scholten

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 36

Dypt fra det fjerne

Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) after the German (Deutsch)

Opp fra kveldens hvite bølger
dukker det en stjerne;
Dypt fra det fjerne
Kommer den unge månen trekkende.

Dypt fra det fjerne,
fra morgenens grå bølger,
strekker de store blasse buene seg
etter stjernene.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), no title, appears in Erlösungen; eine Seelenwandlung in Gedichte und Sprüche, in Zweite Stufe: Liebe, in Natur und Sehnsucht, no. 3, first published 1891
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This text was added to the website: 2008-03-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 34