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Nacht ist's, und Stürme sausen für und für, Hispan'sche Mönche, schließt mir auf die Tür! [Laßt hier] mich ruh'n, bis Glockenton mich weckt, der zum Gebet mich in die Kirche schreckt! Bereitet mir, was euer Haus vermag, ein Ordenskleid und einen Sarkophag! Gönnt mir die kleine Zelle, weiht mich ein, mehr als die Hälfte dieser Welt war mein. Das Haupt, das nun der Scheere sich bequemt, mit mancher Krone ward's bediademt. Die Schulter, die der Kutte nun sich bückt, hat kaiserlicher Hermelin geschmückt. Nun bin ich vor dem Tod den Toten gleich, und fall' in Trümmer, wie das alte Reich.
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View original text (without footnotes)Note: Holy Emperor Charles V (also King Charles I of Spain) abdicated in 1556 and retired to the monastery of San Jerónimo at Yuste.
1 Hensel: "Hier laßt"
Text Authorship:
- by August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796 - 1835), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just" [author's text not yet checked 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 Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Der Pilger von St. Just", op. 26 no. 2, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Vermischte Lieder. Sechs Gesänge, no. 2, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just", H-U 275 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just", op. 99 no. 3 (1844), from Kaiser Karl V, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just", op. 9, Heft 7 (Sechs Gedichte von Heinrich Heine und August von Platen) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Ernst Nessler (1841 - 1890), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just", op. 37 (Drei Balladen für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by François Adrien Boïeldieu.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The pilgrim at San Yuste", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le pèlerin de Saint Just", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Il pellegrino di San Giusto", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 100
E' notte, e le tempeste infuriano, monaci di Spagna, apritemi la porta! Lasciatemi riposare qui, fin che la campana non mi chiami alla preghiera in chiesa! Apprestatemi ciò che offre la vostra casa, un abito dell'ordine ed una tomba! Concedetemi la piccola cella, consacratemi! Più di metà del mondo è stata mia. La testa, che ora aspetta la tonsura, è stata cinta di molte corone. Le spalle, che si curvano alla cotta, hanno portato l'ermellino augusto. Ora, davanti alla morte, sono uguale agli altri morti, e sarà polvere, come l'antico regno.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2006 by Amelia Maria Imbarrato, (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 August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796 - 1835), "Der Pilgrim von St. Just"
This text was added to the website: 2006-04-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 91