by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Masken! Masken ! Daß man Eros blende
Language: German (Deutsch)
Masken! Masken ! Daß man Eros blende. Wer erträgt sein strahlendes Gesicht, wenn er wie die Sommersonnenwende frühlingliches Vorspiel unterbricht. Wie es unversehens im Geplauder anders wird und ernsthaft ... Etwas schrie ... Und er wirft den namenlosen Schauder wie ein Tempelinnres über sie. O verloren, plötzlich, o verloren! Göttliche umarmen schnell . Leben wand sich, Schicksal ward geboren. Und im Innern weint ein Quell.
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Gedichte, Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1927, 430
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eros", appears in Letzte Gedichte [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 Krzysztof Baculewski (b. 1950), "Die Liebe?" [ mixed chorus ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Eros", 2010 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Am Rande der Nacht II, no. 5, Editions Pierre Neuray [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Eros", 2009 [ soprano and piano trio ], from Wer du auch seist, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Eros", 2007 [ chorus and orchestra ], from Am Rande der Nacht I, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Kaiserswerth (1955 - 1992), "Eros", 1982 [ voice and guitar ], from Gesänge für Liebende, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Knaak (b. 1958), "Aria", 2019 [ soprano, violins, continuo ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Knaak (b. 1958), "Eros", 2019 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wolfgang Meyer Tormin (1911 - 1988), "Eros" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oliver Trötschel (b. 1961), "Eros", op. 28 no. 1, first performed 1998 [ soprano and piano ], from Zwei Gesänge nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Ernst Erwin Walther (1920 - 1995), "Eros", 1961-1963, published 2012, copyright © 2012 [ voice and string quintet ], from Lieder, no. 4, Stuttgart : IKURO Edition [sung text not yet checked]
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