by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981)
Uraltes Wehn vom Meer
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG
Uraltes Wehn vom Meer, Meerwind bei Nacht: du kommst zu keinem her; wenn einer wacht, so muß er sehn, wie er dich übersteht: uraltes Wehn vom Meer, welches weht [nur wie für]1 Ur-Gestein, lauter Raum reißend [von]2 weit herein . . . O wie fühlt dich ein treibender Feigenbaum oben im Mondschein.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Gedichte, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1997, pages 546-547.
1 Jarnach: "wie nur für"; Zinsstag: "nur für die"2 Apostel, Paulsen: "wie"
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Lied vom Meer", subtitle: "Capri. Piccola Marina", appears in Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil [author's text checked 2 times 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 Hans Erich Apostel (1901 - 1972), "Lied vom Meer", subtitle: "(Capri, piccola marina)", op. 6 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], Wien: Universal-Edition, Nr. 10917 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Λrthvr , "Lied vom Meer", 2019 [ voice ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "Lied vom Meer", subtitle: "Capri, piccola marina", 1949 [ baritone and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Daffner (1882 - 1936), "Lied vom Meer", op. 79 (Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 3, published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helmut Degen (1911 - 1995), "Lied vom Meer" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walther Ebel (b. 1899), "Lied vom Meer", copyright © 1959 [ men's chorus ], Berlin ; Wiesbaden : Otto Wrede Regina-Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Edler (1912 - 1986), "Lied vom Meer", from Vier Melodramen, no. 2, Edition Tonos [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fré Focke (1910 - 1989), "Lied vom Meer", 1956 [ speaker and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ilse Fromm-Michaels (1888 - 1986), "Lied vom Meer", 1948/49 [ baritone and piano or orchestra ], from Drei Rilke-Gesänge, no. 2, Sikorski [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Gerstberger (1892 - 1955), "Lied vom Meer", op. 25 no. 3 [ alto and piano ], from Die Nacht ; 3 Gesänge, no. 3, Zürich : Hug [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Karl Grimm (b. 1902), "Lied vom Meer", op. 59 no. 3 (1938) [ voice and piano ], from Lieder des Meeres, no. 3, Berlin-Dahlem : Wred [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Herzog (1917 - 1986), "Uraltes Wehn vom Meer" [ bass and piano ], from 5 Gesänge, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Rudolf) Walther Hirschberg (1889 - 1960), "Lied vom Meer", op. 49 (Zehn Lieder) no. 8, published 19? [ voice and piano ], [Deutschland] : Hirschberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothea Hofmann (b. 1961), "Lied vom Meer", 2020 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philipp Jarnach (1892 - 1982), "Lied vom Meer", op. 15 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Max Jobst (1908 - 1943), "Lied vom Meer", op. 6 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst-Lothar von Knorr (1896 - 1973), "Lied vom Meer", 1950? [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harald Kruse (1923 - 1988), "Lied vom Meer" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erik Norby (1936 - 2007), "Lied vom Meer", 1963, published 1986?, copyright © 1971 [ soprano and piano ], from 2 Rilke sange, no. 2, København : Engstrøm & Sødring [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helmut Paulsen (b. 1909), "Lied vom Meer" [ medium voice and piano ], from Sieben besinnliche Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Horst Petruschke (1929 - 1996), "Lied vom Meer" [ chorus and orchestra ], from Wassermusik, no. 3, Händels beliebtes und populäres Orchesterwerk „Wassermusik“ hat mich angeregt, diese herrliche Musik auch mal in einer anderen Bearbeitung zu präsentieren. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Petzold (1908 - 1991), "Lied vom Meer", from Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Polsterer (1879 - 1945), "Lied vom Meer", 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Rietz (1905 - 1976), "Lied vom Meer" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andries van Rossem (b. 1957), "lied vom meer" [ soprano and harmonium ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hajo Sanders , "Lied vom Meer", 2012 [ voice and band ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Lied vom Meer" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Schröder (1904 - 1984), "Das Lied vom Meer", 1969, copyright © 1972 [ chorus ], from Rilke-Zyklus, no. 6, Heidelberg : Willy Müller / Süddeutscher Musikverlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oliver Steller (b. 1967), "Lied vom Meer", 2006 [ narrator, saxophone and double bass ], from Zwischen den Sternen. Gedichte. Briefe. Leben. , no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adam Teleki , "Lied vom Meer" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Zagwijn (1878 - 1954), "Lied vom Meer ", 1948, from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gérard Zinsstag (b. 1941), "Lied vom Meer", 2015 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello ], from Rilke-lieder, no. 1, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by James Blair Leishman (1902 - 1963) , "Song of the Sea", subtitle: "Capri, Piccola Marina" ; composed by Anne Charlotte Clarke.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Antoine Tisné.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981) , "Sång från havet", copyright © ; composed by Dag Lundin, Staffan Storm.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Song of the Sea", subtitle: "Capri. Piccola Marina", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Sång från havet
Language: Swedish (Svenska) after the German (Deutsch)
Urgamla/ brus av hav [ ... ]
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In Rainer Maria Rilke, Dikter, Stockholm : FIB:s lyrikklubb, 1978
Text Authorship:
- by Anders Österling (1884 - 1981), "Sång från havet", copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Lied vom Meer", subtitle: "Capri. Piccola Marina", appears in Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dag Lundin (b. 1943), "Sång från havet", 1978 - 1979, first performed 1981 [ soprano, mixed chorus, piano ], from Havsmässa, no. 3, Svenks Musik [sung text not yet checked]
- by Staffan Storm (b. 1964), "Sång från havet", 2014, first performed 2014 [ baritone, mixed chorus, orchestra ], from ... och Skånes somrar ila, no. 1, Svensk Musik [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by James Blair Leishman (1902 - 1963) , "Song of the Sea", subtitle: "Capri, Piccola Marina" ; composed by Anne Charlotte Clarke.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Antoine Tisné.
- Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]
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