by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Wie hab ich das gefühlt, was Abschied...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG
Wie hab ich das gefühlt, was Abschied heißt. Wie weiß ichs noch : ein dunkles unverwundnes grausames Etwas, das ein Schönverbundnes noch einmal zeigt und hinhält und zerreißt. Wie war ich ohne Wehr, dem zuzuschauen, das, da es mich, mich rufend, gehen ließ, zurückblieb, so als wärens alle Frauen und dennoch klein und weiß und nichts als dies : Ein Winken, schon nicht mehr auf mich bezogen, ein leise Weiterwinkendes -, schon kaum erklärbar mehr: vielleicht ein Pflaumenbaum von dem ein Kuckuck hastig abgeflogen.
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Neue Gedichte, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1922, page 55.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Abschied", written 1907, appears in Neue 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 Thomas Bloch-Bonhoff (b. 1971), "Abschied" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerd Boder (1933 - 1992), "Abschied" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Edler (1912 - 1986), "Abschied", from Vier Melodramen, no. 3, Edition Tonos [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Jochum (1898 - 1969), "Abschied" [ speaker ], from Stufen der Einsamkeit, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst-Lothar von Knorr (1896 - 1973), "Abschied", 1919-1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist (1920 - 2000), "Wie hab ich das gefühlt", 1984/1989 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Siebenmal Rilke, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Ming (1900 - 1980), "Abschied", 1946, published 2006 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder nach Texten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4, Niedernhausen : Edition Kemel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Werner August Morgenthaler (1896 - 1964), "Wie hab ich das gefühlt was Abschied heisst" [ voice and piano ], from 7 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Abschied" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Triphon Dimitrov Silyanovski (1923 - 2005), "Abschied", 1953 [ soprano and piano ], from 5 песни за сопран и пиано (лява ръка), по стихове на Райнер Мария Рилке = Five Songs for Soprano and Piano (Left Hand) on Poetry by R.M. Rilke, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yury Semyonovich Vaikhansky (1958 - 2019), "Abschied" [ voice and guitar ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konstantin Wladigeroff (b. 1978) and by Alexander Wladigeroff (b. 1978), "Der Abschied", 2020 [ soprano and chamber orchestra ], from Magie; Hommage an Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 6, note: this is an arrangement of a song by Tryphon Silyanovsky [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vera Sergeyevna Strakhova (1944 - 2018) ; composed by Yury Semyonovich Vaikhansky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
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