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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Und du warst schön. In deinem Auge...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Und du warst schön. In deinem Auge schien
sich Nacht und Sonne sieghaft zu versöhnen.
Und Hoheit hüllte wie ein Hermelin
dich ein: So kam dich meine Liebe krönen.
Und meine nächteblasse Sehnsucht stand,
weißbindig wie der Vesta Priesterin,
an deines Seelentempels Säulenrand
und streute lächelnd weiße Blüten 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 Funde, no. 23 [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 Siegfried Fournes (1896 - 1932), "Und du warst schön", copyright © 1978 [ voice and piano ], from Gesamtausgabe der Lieder von Siegfried Fournes, no. 21, Steinkirchen : G. Fournes [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Willy Kehrer (1902 - 1976), "Und du warst so schön", op. 28 no. 3 (1922), first performed 1938 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano (ad libitum) and piano ], from Eine Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Stunde, no. 3, Thüringen : Willy-Kehrer-Archiv Schmölln [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sven-David Sandström (b. 1942), "Und du warst schön", 2017 [ mixed chorus ], from Drei Rilke Gesänge, no. 3, Stockholm : Gehrmans Musikförlag [sung text not yet checked]

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

This text was added to the website: 2023-09-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 49

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