Coucher de soleil | Coucher de soleil sacré, rougeoyant !

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by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Du heilig, glühend Abendroth!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Du heilig, glühend Abendroth!
Der Himmel will in Glanz zerrinnen,
So scheiden [Märtyrer]¹ von hinnen
Holdlächelnd in dem Liebestod.

Des Aufgangs Berge still und grau,
Am Grab des Tags die hellen Gluten,
Der Schwan auf purpurrothen Fluten,
Und jeder Halm im Silberthau!

O Sonne, Gottesstrahl, du bist
Nie herrlicher, als im [Entfliehen]²,
Du willst uns gern [hinüber ziehen]³,
Wo deines Glanzes Urquell ist.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Poetische Werke von Aloys Schreiber. Erster Band. Tübingen, bei Heinrich Laupp. 1817, page 67; with Aloys Schreiber's Gedichte. Erster Theil. Neueste Auflage. Wien 1817. Bey B. Ph. Bauer, pages 68-69; and with Solothurnisches Wochenblatt für 1815. Herausgegeben von Freunden der vaterländischen Geschichte. Solothurn bey Ludwig Vogelsang, obrigkeitlichem Buchdrucker, Nro. 45. Samstag, den 11 November 1815, page 592.

¹ Schreiber (Wien 1817 edition), and Schubert: "Märterer"
² Schubert: "Entfliehn"
³ Schubert: "hinüberziehn"

Text Authorship:

by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Abendrot", op. posth. 173 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, D 627 (1818), published 1867 [ bass, piano ], C. A. Spina, VN 19179, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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Coucher de soleil

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Coucher de soleil sacré, rougeoyant !
Le ciel se fond dans ton éclat ;
Ainsi les martyrs partent d'ici,
Souriant gracieusement en mourant pour leur amour.

Les montagnes sont silencieuses et grises à l'aube,
Les flammes brillent quand le jour meurt :
Le cygne glisse sur les flots pourpres
Et chaque tige est baignée par la rosée d'argent !

Ô soleil, lumière de Dieu, tu n'es
Jamais plus glorieux que quand tu t'enfuis !
Tu nous conduis avec plaisir avec toi
Vers la source de ton éclat.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth"
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This text was added to the website: 2011-10-21
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