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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

An manchem Tag ist meine Seele still
Language: German (Deutsch) 
An manchem Tag ist meine Seele still:
Ein Gotteshaus, draus alle Beter gingen.
Ein Engel nur wehrt mit den goldnen Schwingen
dem Weihrauch, der mit seinen leisen Ringen
den Jubel seiner Arme fesseln will.

Verträumte Heiligenbilder dunkeln drin
in ratlos-sehnendem Erhörenwollen:
Sie warten auf den Sonntag mit den vollen
Gestühlen und dem großen Orgelrollen—
und blasse Ampeln schwanken her und hin.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1913


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Damit ich glücklich wäre —, no. 2 [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 Johannes Bammer (1888 - 1988), "An manchem Tag ist meine Seele still" [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gesänge, Worte von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Volkmar Ellmauthaler (b. 1957), "An manchem Tag ist meine Seele still", op. 12 no. 3 (1987), copyright © 1993 [ soprano and organ ], Wien : NÖ Musikedition : INÖK [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Thomas F. Schubert (b. 1961), "An manchen Tagen ist meine Seele still" [ soprano and chamber orchestra ], from An manchen Tagen ist meine Seele still, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-10-28
Line count: 10
Word count: 61

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