by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Mathias Rüegg (b. 1952)
Andere müssen auf langen Wegen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Andere müssen auf langen Wegen zu den dunklen Dichtern gehn; fragen immer irgendwen, ob er nicht einen hat singen sehn oder Hände auf Saiten legen. Nur die Mädchen fragen nicht, welche Brücke zu Bildern führe; lächeln nur, lichter als Perlenschnüre, die man an Schalen von Silber hält. Aus ihrem Leben geht jede Türe in einen Dichter und in die Welt.
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch der Bilder, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923, p.8
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1900, appears in Das Buch der Bilder, in Von den Mädchen, no. 1 [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 Boris von Burg (b. 1972), "Von den Mädchen" [ voice and band ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Steven Ebel , "Andere müssen" [ narrator, tenor, and piano ], from Diary of a Young Poet (Tagebuch eines jungen Dichters), no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Maux (1893 - 1971), "Von den Mädchen", op. 311 (1935) [ speaker and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Rottenberg (1864 - 1932), "Von den Mädchen" [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gedichte, no. 2, Leipzig: Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Widmaier (b. 1960), "Von den Mädchen" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Mathias Rüegg (b. 1952) , copyright © ; composed by Mathias Rüegg.
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Only the Girls
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Others must go a long way [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Mathias Rüegg (b. 1952), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1900, appears in Das Buch der Bilder, in Von den Mädchen, no. 1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mathias Rüegg (b. 1952), "Only the Girls", first performed 2021 [ voice and band ], from my poet’s love, no. 10, sung by Lia Pale on album: my poet’s love, Universal Music Austria (Soulfood) [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2023-11-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 63