Engelsschau | In Engelsaugen mögen der Bäume Wipfel

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Vues des Anges, les cimes des arbres...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Vues des Anges, les cimes des arbres peut-être
sont des racines, buvant les cieux;
et dans le sol, les profondes racines d'un hêtre
leur semblent des faîtes silencieux.

Pour eux, la terre, n'est-elle point transparente
en face d'un ciel, plein comme un corps?
Cette terre ardente, où se lamente
auprès des sources l'oubli des morts.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924-5, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 38, first published 1926 [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 Hans Kox (b. 1930), "Vues des anges", 1959 [sung text not yet checked]
by Bernard Reichel (1901 - 1992), "Vues des anges", 1951 [ 4 voices and piano ], from 10 Petits canons, no. 4, Manuscript [sung text not yet checked]
by Ludovic Thirvaudey (b. 1980), "...des racines, buvant les cieux...", 2011 [ string quartet ], Manuscript [sung text not yet checked]
by Joop Voorn (1932 - 2021), "Vues des anges", 2011, published 2014, copyright © 2014 [ voice and clarinet ], from Vues des anges, no. 4, Rijswijk, the Netherlands : : Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Seen by Angels", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Engelsschau", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 55

Engelsschau

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

In Engelsaugen mögen der Bäume Wipfel
Wurzeln sein, Himmel schlürfend;
und die tiefen Wurzeln einer Buche
scheinen ihnen stumme Gipfel.

Ist ihnen  die Erde gar durchscheinend
gegen einen Himmel, übervoll?
Diese brennende Erde, wo man
bei den Quellen das Vergessen der Toten beklagt.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2009 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924-5, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 38, first published 1926
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 43