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• 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 Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912), "Sonnet", copyright © 1982 [ tenor and piano ], from Five songs, no. 2, Ship Bottom, N.J. : Association for the Promotion of New Music [sung text not yet checked]
• by Günter Bialas (1907 - 1992), "Wandelt sich", 1946 [ medium voice and orchestra ], from Orpheus singt. Sonette an Orpheus für mittlere Stimme und Orchester, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harrison Birtwistle, Sir (1934 - 2022), "Elegy 14, Sonnet I, 19", 2003-04, first performed 2004 [ oboe, harp and countertenor ], from Orpheus elegies, no. 4, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Fritz Büchtger (1903 - 1978), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Orpheus, no. 4, Orlando Musikverlag Gartenmaier KG [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fritz Büchtger (1903 - 1978), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", op. 7 no. 4, published [1935] [ men's chorus ], from Den Toten : Vier Männerchöre, no. 4, Köln am Rhein : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert DeCormier (1922 - 2017), "Sonnet No.21." [ mixed chorus ], from Four Sonnets to Orpheus, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• 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 Peter Michael Hamel (b. 1947), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 2016, published 2017 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier Sonette an Orpheus, no. 1, Berlin, Verlag Neue Musik [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Hawkins (b. 1944), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 1997, first performed 1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Drei Sonette an Orpheus, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinz Höne (1924 - 2008), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt" [ mixed chorus ], from Sonette an Orpheus, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Andrew Hudson , "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", from Drei Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Volker David Kirchner (b. 1942), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 1968/87, copyright © 1989 [ baritone, horn and piano ], from Orfeo, no. 3, Mainz [etc.] : Schott [sung text not yet checked]
• by Birgitta Lutz , "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 2010 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vincent Manac'h (b. 1973 ), "Orpheus", 2002 [ mixed chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans-Jürg Meier (1964 - 2015), "Lied überm Land", 2011 [ vocal quartet ], from ...und die Musik, immer neu, baut im unbrauchbaren Raum..., no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Rósa Lind Page (b. 1956), "Einziges lied", 2005, first performed 2005 [ oboe d'amore, strings, chorus, and bonsho ], Australian Music Centre [sung text not yet checked]
• by Roman Palester (1907 - 1989), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 1952 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Drei Sonetten Orpheus : für Sopran und orchester , no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hanning Schroeder (1896 - 1987), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", 1925, first performed 1986 [ soprano, flute,clarinet, viola and violoncello ], from cantata Rilke-Kantate, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Strauß-König (b. 1930), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt", copyright © 1956 [ men's chorus ], from Festliche Musik, no. 2, Bremen : Edition Eres [sung text not yet checked]
• by Klaus Velten (b. 1937), "Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt" [ mixed chorus ], from Drei Gesänge nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Konstantin Wladigeroff (b. 1978) and by Alexander Wladigeroff (b. 1978), "Die Sonette an Orpheus I, XIX", 2020 [ countertenor and chamber orchestra ], from Magie; Hommage an Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985) , appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © ; composed by Walter Arlen, David Leo Diamond, George Perle.
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• Also set in English, a translation by James Blair Leishman (1902 - 1963) , no title ; composed by Colin Matthews.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943) , copyright © ; composed by Richard Danielpour.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz (1934 - 2011) , no title, copyright © ; composed by Vladislav Mikhailovich Lebedev.
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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

This text was added to the website: 2009-12-18
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Word count: 57