by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)
Erhebung
Language: German (Deutsch)
Gib mir [nur die]1 Hand, nur den Finger, dann seh ich diesen ganzen Erdkreis als mein Eigen an! O wie blüht mein Land, sieh [mich]2 doch nur an, daß [ich mit dir]3 über die Wolken in die Sonne kann!
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2 Schoenberg: "dir's"
3 Schoenberg: "es mit uns"
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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896, page 126. Spelling has been modernized ("Gib" was "Gieb").
1 Schoenberg: "deine"2 Schoenberg: "dir's"
3 Schoenberg: "es mit uns"
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Erhebung", 1917 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Erhebung", op. 12 (Vierzehn Lieder) no. 13 (1997-8) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Erhebung", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 3 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Erhebung", op. 8 (Sechs Gedichte von Richard Dehmel) no. 2, published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962) ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Elevation", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Élévation", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Opphøyelse", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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