Songs
Zur Rosenzeit
(1889)
Op. 48
Zur Rosenzeit
Ihr verblühet, süße Rosen,Meine Liebe trug euch nicht;Blühet, ach! dem Hoffnungslosen,Dem der Gram die Seele bricht!Jener Tage denk’ ich trauernd,Als ich, Engel, an dir hing,Auf das erste Knöspchen lauerndFrüh zu meinem Garten ging;Alle Blüten, alle FrüchteNoch zu deinen Füßen trugUnd vor deinem AngesichteHoffnung in dem Herzen schlug.Ihr verblühet, süße Rosen,Meine Liebe trug euch nicht;Blühet, ach! dem Hoffnungslosen,Dem der Gram die Seele bricht.
Time of Roses
You fade, sweet roses, My love did not wear you;Ah! You bloom for one bereft of hope,Whose soul now breaks with grief!Sorrowfully I think of those days,When I, my angel, set my heart on you,And waiting for the first little bud,Went early to my garden;Laid all the blossoms, all the fruitsAt your very feet,With hope beating in my heart,When you looked on me.You fade, sweet roses,My love did not wear you;Ah! you bloom for one bereft of hope,Whose soul now breaks with grief.
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
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Composer
Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Previously performed at:
- 10 Mar 2018: Maria Forsström & Sholto Kynoch
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- 23 Oct 2016: Mastercourse 2016 (for T&Ts)
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Zur Rosenzeit
Time of Roses
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
- 10 Mar 2018: Maria Forsström & Sholto Kynoch
- 23 Oct 2016: Mastercourse 2016 (for T&Ts)
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