Weißt du noch: fallende Sterne, die quer wie Pferde durch die Himmel sprangen über plötzlich hingehaltne Stangen unsrer Wünsche-- hatten wir so viele?-- denn es sprangen Sterne, ungezählt; fast ein jeder Aufblick war vermählt mit dem raschen Wagnis ihrer Spiele, und das Herz fühlte empfand sich als ein Ganzes unter diesen Trümmern ihres Glanzes und war heil, als überstünd es sie!
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title [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 Julia Schwartz (b. 1963), "Weisst du noch?", 1994-95 [ voice and piano ], from Die Nacht, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Snow , copyright © ; composed by Kevin Padworski.
- Also set in English, a translation by Albert Ernest Flemming , "Falling stars", copyright © ; composed by Richard Charlton.
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Do you remember still the falling stars [ ... ]
Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming, Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems, Psychology Press, 1986, p.210
Authorship:
- by Albert Ernest Flemming , "Falling stars", copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Richard Charlton (b. 1955), "Falling stars", 2011 [ women's chorus and chamber orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2023-08-31
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Word count: 75