Before my window | Before my window

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by Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Vor meinem Fenster

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Vor meinem Fenster 
Singt ein Vogel.

Still [hör']¹ ich zu; mein Herz [vergeht]².

Er singt, 
was ich als Kind [besass]³
Und dann -- vergessen!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Zeisl

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Confirmed with Dieter Lamping, Theorie des lyrischen Gedichts

¹ Zeisl: "höre"
² Zeisl: "vergeht,/ Erinnerung klingt,/ Abendrot winkt, Dämmerung schwingt"
³ Zeisl: "besaß/ So rein errang, so voll bezwang,/ So traut durchmaß, so ganz besaß"

Text Authorship:

by Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929), "Vor meinem Fenster", appears in Phantasus [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 Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879 - 1953), "Vor meinem Fenster", op. 22 (Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier = Szesc piesni na glos i fortepian) no. 2, published [1908] [ voice and piano ], Berlin: A Stahl Vereinsverlag jung-polnischer Komponisten, also set in Polish (Polski) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Maria Löbl (1911 - 1942), "Vor meinem Fenster" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erich Zeisl (1905 - 1959), "Vor meinem Fenster", 1936 [ soprano and piano ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Grzegorz Fitelberg.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Before my window", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Un oiseau chante devant ma fenêtre", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
Line count: 6
Word count: 27

Before my window

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Before my window
Sings a bird.

I listen silently; my heart dissolves.¹

It sings
What I possessed as a child²
And then -- forgot!

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¹ Zeisl adds "Memory sounds,/ the evening glow beckons, twilight descends."
² Zeisl adds "So purely achieved, so fully understood,/ So familiarly compassed, so completely possessed,"

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2013 by Sharon Krebs, (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 Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929), "Vor meinem Fenster", appears in Phantasus
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This text was added to the website: 2013-06-28
Line count: 6
Word count: 25