Élévation | Donne-moi ta main

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Erhebung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE NOR

Gib mir [nur die]¹ Hand,
  nur den Finger, dann
seh ich diesen ganzen Erdkreis
  als mein Eigen an!

O wie blüht mein Land,
  sieh [mich]² doch nur an,
daß [ich mit dir]³ über die Wolken
  in die Sonne kann!

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• A. Schoenberg

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896, page 126. Spelling has been modernized ("Gib" was "Gieb").

¹ Schoenberg: "deine"
² Schoenberg: "dir's"
³ Schoenberg: "es mit uns"

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt [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), as Emilie Maria von Bach, "Erhebung", 1917 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Erhebung", op. 12 (Vierzehn Lieder) no. 13 (1997-8) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Erhebung", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 3 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Erhebung", op. 8 (Sechs Gedichte von Richard Dehmel) no. 2, published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in English, a translation by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962) ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Elevation", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Élévation", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Opphøyelse", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Élévation

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

Donne-moi ta main, 
Juste un doigt, et alors 
Je considérerai le monde entier 
Comme mon bien propre! 

Ô comme ma terre est fleurie, 
Regarde-la donc! 
Elle peut avec nous, par-dessus les nuages 
Nous mener au soleil!

Note: this is a translation of Schoenberg's version.

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Erhebung", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website: 2012-01-12
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