Was a window open? Is the storm in the house? [ ... ]
Storm in the House
Set by Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968), "Storm in the House", first performed 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 5  [sung text checked 1 time]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 22, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 22, first published 1906
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Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Is this the morning? What sun is rising? [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 23, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 23, first published 1906
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
1 omitted by Bielawa.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
But the flag is not there [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 24, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 24, first published 1906
Go to the general single-text view
Confirmed with M. D. Herter Norton, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Note: this is a prose text with arbitrary line-breaks added.
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]