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Wer du auch seist: am Abend tritt hinaus aus deiner Stube, drin du alles weißt; als letztes vor der Ferne liegt dein Haus: wer du auch seist. Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein, hebst du ganz langsam einen schwarzen Baum und stellst ihn vor den Himmel: schlank, allein. Und hast die Welt gemacht. Und sie ist groß und wie ein Wort, das noch im Schweigen reift. Und wie dein Wille ihren Sinn begreift, lassen sie deine Augen zärtlich los...
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eingang", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920 [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 Natalie Bayada-Snoeren , "Eingang" [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Rilke, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Wer du auch seist", 2010 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Am Rande der Nacht II, no. 2, Editions Pierre Neuray [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Wer du auch seist", 2009 [ soprano and piano trio ], from Wer du auch seist, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Fürstenthal (1920 - 2016), "Eingang" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christoph Alexander Garbe (b. 1977), "Eingang", 1996, published 1999 [ low voice and piano ], from Mit deinen Augen, no. 1, Selbstverlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Eingang", copyright © 2009 [ soprano, viola d'amore, and cello ], from Rilke Songs, no. 4, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Hasenclever (1897 - 1988), "Wer du auch seist...", op. 1 no. 2 (1922), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Rapsodia per Canto e Pianoforte , no. 1, Dresden : Rudolf Kaemmerer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Hudson , "Eingang" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Matthias Kern , "Eingang" [ chorus ], from Chormusik nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Priscilla McLean (b. 1942), "Eingang", 1965, first performed 1966 [ voice and violin ], from Rainer Maria Rilke Poems, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jānis Petraškevičs (b. 1978), "Eingang", 2017/18 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano ], Edition Gravis Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jānis Petraškevičs (b. 1978), "Eingang", 2017/18 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano ], Edition Gravis Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jānis Petraškevičs (b. 1978), "Eingang", 2017-2018 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano ], from Herbst. Eingang, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Widmaier (b. 1960), "Eingang" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beth Wiemann (b. 1959), "Eingang", 2019, published 2020 [ baritone and piano ], from Six songs on Rilke, no. 1, New York, NY : American Composers Alliance, Inc. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Regina Wittemeier (b. 1956), "Es sitzen am Kreuzweg drei Frauen", op. 34 (Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen) no. 1, published 2003 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Robert Bly (b. 1926) , copyright © ; composed by Michael Alec Rose.
- Also set in English, a translation by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967) , "Initiation" ; composed by Bruce Harold Babcock.
- Also set in English, a translation by Dana Gioia (b. 1950) , copyright © ; composed by David Conte.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2008
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Entrée", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-05-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 85
Whoever you may be: in the evening, step out of your room, in which everything is familiar; your house lies last before the distance: whoever you may be. With your weary eyes, which you can hardly free from gazing at the worn-out window-sill, you raise, very slowly, a dark tree and place it before the sky: slight and alone. And you have created the world. And it is large and [it is] like a word that will continue to ripen in silence. And as your will comes to understand its mind, your eyes will tenderly let it go...
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Translation of title "Eingang" = "Entry"Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eingang", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 98