by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Margaret Dows Herter Norton Crena de Iongh, née Herter (1894 - 1985)
Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): FRE
Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt wie Wolkengestalten, alles Vollendete fällt heim zum Uralten. Über dem Wandel und Gang, weiter und freier, währt noch dein Vor-Gesang, Gott mit der Leier. Nicht sind die Leiden erkannt, nicht ist die Liebe gelernt, und was im Tod uns entfernt, ist nicht entschleiert. Einzig das Lied überm Land heiligt und feiert.
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Authorship
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19 [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), "Wandelt sich rasch", copyright © 2012 [tenor and piano], from Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 19, confirmed with an online score [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrew Hudson , "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", from Drei Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- 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 David Leo Diamond, George Perle.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- 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: 2009-12-18
Line count: 14
Word count: 57
Even though the world keeps changing
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Even though the world keeps changing [ ... ]
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1 Diamond: "wider"
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]
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Even though the world keeps changing", 1946 [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by George Perle (1915 - 2009), "Sonnet #19", first performed 1975 [chorus a cappella], from Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2009-12-18
Line count: 14
Word count: 60