Joutsenlaulu | Kuinka siitä valitan

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by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857)

Translation © by Aleksi Reunanen

Wie klag' ich's aus

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FIN FRE

»Wie klag' ich's aus
Das Sterbegefühl,
Das auflösend
Durch die Glieder rinnt?

Wie sing' ich's aus
Das Werdegefühl,
Das erlösend
Dich, o Geist, anweht?«

[Es klagt', es]¹ sang
Vernichtungsbang,
Verklärungsfroh,
Bis das Leben floh.

Das [ist]² des Schwanen Gesang!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Senn. Innsbruck, in der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung. 1838, page 15

Note: Schubert received Senn's poem in handwritten form. Senn issued it later in the book mentioned above, with the footnote In Musik gesetzt von Fr. Schubert.

¹ Schubert: "Er klagt', er"
² Schubert: "bedeutet"

Text Authorship:

by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857), "Schwanenlied" [author's text checked 2 times 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), "Schwanengesang", op. 23 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, D 744 (1822?), published 1823 [ voice, piano ], Sauer & Leidesdorf, VN 367, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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

Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 41

Joutsenlaulu

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the German (Deutsch)

"Kuinka siitä valitan, 
kuoleman tunteesta,
joka liuottaen valuu 
läpi jäsenten?

Kuinka siitä laulan, 
joksikin tulemisen tunteesta,
joka vapauttaen sinua, 
oi henki, puhaltaa?"
 
Hän valitti, hän lauloi,
katoamisen pelkoa,
kirkastumisen iloa,
elämän pakenemiseen saakka.

Tätä merkitsee joutsenlaulu.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2011 by Aleksi Reunanen, (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 Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857), "Schwanenlied"
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This text was added to the website: 2011-11-10
Line count: 13
Word count: 36