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by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)
Translation © by Yen-Chiang Che

Gebet an Pierrot
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN
Pierrot! Mein Lachen
Hab ich verlernt!
Das Bild des Glanzes
Zerfloß - Zerfloß!

Schwarz weht die Flagge
Mir nun vom Mast.
Pierrot! Mein Lachen
Hab ich verlernt!

O gieb mir wieder,
Roßarzt der Seele,
Schneemann der Lyrik,
Durchlaucht vom Monde,
Pierrot - mein Lachen!

Text Authorship:

  • by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Gebet an Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Supplique", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Gebet an Pierrot", op. 4 no. 1 (1913), published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from 12 Gedichte aus Pierrot lunaire, no. 1, Berlin, N. Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Gebet an Pierrot", op. 21 no. 9 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Gebet an Pierrot", op. 5 (Five Songs) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Gebet an Pierrot", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 1, confirmed with Strandgut. Münchner literarisch-künsterlische Monatsschrift, 20. April 1905, pp. 59-60 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "向皮耶羅祈禱", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Prayer to Pierrot", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Prière à Pierrot", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Preghiera a Pierrot", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Bøn til Pierrot", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 42

向皮耶羅祈禱
Language: Chinese (中文)  after the German (Deutsch) 
皮耶羅!我的笑
我已經不記得了!
那明亮的景象
已消失-已消失!

一幀黑色的旗幟
在我的桅桿上翻飛著。
皮耶羅!我的笑
我已經不記得了!

哦 還給我,
靈魂的獸醫師,
抒情的雪人,
高貴的月亮殿下,
皮耶羅-我的笑!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to Chinese (中文) copyright © 2010 by Yen-Chiang Che, (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 German (Deutsch) by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Gebet an Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893
    • Go to the text page.

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Supplique", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-01
Line count: 13
Word count: 14

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