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Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen leise aus lautem Kreis, wenn ich erst die bleichen Sterne über den Eichen blühen weiß. Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt in blassen Abendwiesen - und keinen Traum, als diesen: Du gehst mit.
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke,R.M.,Gesammelte Werke (Gedichte), Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2020
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen", appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 6 [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "Du gehst mit", 1925, published 1929 [ soprano and piano ], from Rilke Lieder, no. 7, from Rilke-Lieder, no. 16, Wien : Edition Vienna, Rudolf Jamnig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Bammer (1888 - 1988), "Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen", 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Gesänge, no. 2, Leipzig : Gebr. Hug & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Füglistaller , "Weißt du", op. 24 (Sieben Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 4, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], Köln : Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Hawley (b. 1950), "Weisst du", copyright © 2001, first performed 2002 [ mixed chorus ], from Drei Momente, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Weisst du", op. 56 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from 27 Lieder zu Gedichte von R. M. Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Otto Kötzschke (1870 - 1957), as Hanns Kötzschke, "Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen", 1941 [ high voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1, Dresden-Blasewitz : Kötzschke [sung text not yet checked]
- by Seymour J. Shifrin (b. 1926), "Weisst du", 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Early poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by József Soproni (b. 1930), "Weisst du" [ soprano and piano ], from Nyolc dal R. M. Rilke verseire = Eight Songs to Poems by R. M. Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Korstiaan Stougie (1908 - 1988), "Du gehst mit", op. 1 (124 liederen : 1925-1969) no. 40 (1932) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985) , no title, appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © ; composed by Robert Erickson, Libby Larsen.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Quentin Grant.
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Advent", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2007-12-13
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Word count: 40
You know I'd like to sidle out of the circle loud, once I know the pallid stars above the oak-trees all abloom. Paths will I be choosing that seldom any tread in palish ev'ning meadows? and no dream else but dreaming: you join in.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen", appears in Advent, in Funde, no. 6
This text was added to the website: 2010-12-02
Line count: 10
Word count: 44