by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Das ist mein Streit
Language: German (Deutsch)
Das ist mein Streit: Sehnsuchtgeweiht durch alle Tage schweifen. Dann, stark und breit, mit tausend Wurzelstreifen tief in das Leben greifen - und durch das Leid weit aus dem Leben reifen, weit aus der Zeit!
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Erste Gedichte, Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1922, p.107
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Advent, in Gaben. An verschiedene Freunde, no. 1 [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 Fritz Binder , "Das ist mein Streit" [ men's chorus, brass and piano ], Heidelberg : Hochstein & Co [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philipp Mohler (1908 - 1982), "Das ist mein Streit" [ voice and piano ], from Rilke-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Sthamer (1885 - 1955), "Das ist mein Streit", op. 48 (Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von R. M. Rilke) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Richard Gustav) Heinz Tiessen (1887 - 1971), "Das ist mein Streit", 1910/11, first performed 1911, from symphony Erste Symphonie C-Dur, Richard Strauß gewidmet als Zeichen der Verehrung und des Dankes Fürstner Musikverlag, Mainz. Ries & Erler. Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konstantin Wladigeroff (b. 1978) and by Alexander Wladigeroff (b. 1978), "Mir", 2020 [ children's chorus and chamber orchestra ], from Magie; Hommage an Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985) , no title, appears in Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, copyright © ; composed by Robert Erickson.
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