by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985)
Errichtet keinen Denkstein. Laßt die...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Errichtet keinen Denkstein. Laßt die Rose nur jedes Jahr zu seinen Gunsten blühn. Denn Orpheus ists. Seine Metamorphose in dem und dem. Wir sollen uns nicht mühn um andre Namen. Ein für alle Male ists Orpheus, wenn es singt. Er kommt und geht. Ists nicht schon viel, wenn er die Rosenschale um ein Paar Tage manchmal übersteht? O wie er schwinden muß, daß ihrs begrifft! Und wenn ihm selbst auch bangte, daß er schwände. Indem sein Wort das Hiersein übertrifft, ist er schon dort, wohin ihrs nicht begleitet. Der Leier Gitter zwingt ihm nicht die Hände. Und er gehorcht, indem er überschreitet.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 5 [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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Errichtet keinen Denkstein", copyright © 2012 [tenor and piano], from Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 5, confirmed with an online score [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016), "Errichtet keinen Denkstein", 1956 [voice and piano or orchestra], from Fünf Sonette an Orpheus, no. 5 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985) , appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © FRE ; composed by George Perle.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "Sonnet to Orpheus", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 102
Sonnet #5
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Set up no stone to his memory [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985), appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 5
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by George Perle (1915 - 2009), "Sonnet #5", first performed 1975 [chorus a cappella], from Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2009-12-18
Line count: 14
Word count: 115