by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Anita Barrows and by Joanna Macy
Wer seines Lebens viele Widersinne
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wer seines Lebens viele Widersinne versöhnt und dankbar in ein Sinnbild fasst, der drängt die Lärmenden aus dem Palast, wird anders festlich, und du bist der Gast, den er an sanften Abenden empfängt. Du bist der Zweite seiner Einsamkeit, die ruhige Mitte seinen Monologen; und jeder Kreis, um dich gezogen, spannt ihm den Zirkel aus der Zeit.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Wer seines Lebens viele Widersinne", written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 17, first published 1905 [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 Robert Fürstenthal (1920 - 2016), "Wer seines Lebens" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder an Gott nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anita Barrows , "Abandon", copyright © and by Joanna Macy , "Abandon", copyright © ; composed by Zane Randall Stroope.
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This text was added to the website: 2011-10-22
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Word count: 57
Abandon
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads [ ... ]
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours, Penguin Publishing Group, 2005,p.77
Text Authorship:
- by Anita Barrows , "Abandon", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Joanna Macy , "Abandon", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Wer seines Lebens viele Widersinne", written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 17, first published 1905
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Zane Randall Stroope (b. 1953), "Abandon", copyright © 2022 [ mixed chorus ], Walton Music [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 77