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Ich sah des Sommers letzte Rose [stehn]1, Sie war, als ob sie bluten könne, rot; Da sprach ich [schauernd]2 im Vorübergehn: So weit im Leben, ist zu nah am Tod! Es regte sich kein Hauch am heißen Tag, Nur leise strich ein weisser Schmetterling; Doch ob auch kaum die Luft sein Flügelschlag Bewegte, sie empfand es und verging.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 163.
1 Hindemith: "blühn"2 Hindemith: "schaudernd"
Text Authorship:
- by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Sommerbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte 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 Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Sommerbild", op. 4 (Sieben Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Fontyn (b. 1930), "Sommerbild", op. 67 no. 6 (1986), published 1987? [ vocal duet for soprano and contralto with clarinet, violin, harp, and piano ], from Rosa, rosae, no. 6, Limelette : Fontyn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Siegfried Fournes (1896 - 1932), "Des Sommers letzte Rose", copyright © 1978 [ voice and piano ], from Gesamtausgabe der Lieder von Siegfried Fournes, no. 11, Steinkirchen : G. Fournes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Martin Gräbner (b. 1967), "Sommerbild", 2013 [ voice and piano ], from Solang Du lebest, ist es Tag - Ein Liederzyklus für BL, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Sommerbild", 1908/9?, from Sieben Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor mit Klavierbegleitung, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Meta ter Kuile-Troxler (1895 - 1940), "Sommerbild", op. 7b (4 Lieder) no. 3, copyright © 1926 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Hug, also set in Italian (Italiano) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emil Matthiesen (1875 - 1939), "Sommerbild" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Sommerbild", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Riedel (1847 - 1913), "Sommerbild", op. 11 (Drei Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Constantino Grondona ; composed by Meta ter Kuile-Troxler.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Summer image", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Image d'été", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 61
I saw the Summer's last rose [standing]1; it was red, as if it could bleed; then, [shivering]2, I spoke in passing: "To be so far in life is to be too near to death!" Not one breeze stirred on that hot day; only a white butterfly withdrew gently; yet even though the beating of its wings hardly affected the air, the rose felt it and expired.
1 for the Hindemith version, "blooming"
2 for the Hindemith version, "shuddering"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Sommerbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 69