Evening fantasy
Evening Fantasy is an ode by Friedrich Hölderlin , which was written in the summer of 1799. The poem is one of the most important works of his Homburg time, in which he worked on the unfinished tragedy The Death of Empedocles . Together with the Oden Des Morgens and Der Main , the first printing took place in the British ladies' calendar and paperback for the year eighteen hundred published by Johann Leonhard Hadermann .
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The poem lets a series of evocative images pass by. The evening rest after the work is done is followed by the melancholy world contemplation of the lonely, who is removed from the happy, busy hustle and bustle, longing for heavenly distant places, in order to find his peace at the end by thinking of the serene calm of old age.
The ode consists of six Alkaic stanzas and reads:
Sitting quietly in the shade in front of his hut
The plowman, the frugal, smokes his hearth.
Hospitable sounds to the hiker in the
The evening bell in peaceful villages.
The boatmen are also returning to the port,
In distant cities, the market happily noisy
Business noise; in a quiet arbor
The convivial meal shines for friends.
Where am I going? Long live mortals
Of wages and work; alternating in effort and tranquility
Everything is joyful; why is sleeping
Never the sting in my chest only?
Spring blooms in the evening sky;
The roses bloom innumerable and seem calm
The golden world; o there takes me
Purple clouds! and may up
Love and sorrow melt away in light and air! -
Yet, as if chased away by foolish pleading, flee
The magic; it gets dark and lonely
Under the sky, as always, I am -
You come now, gentle slumber! too much sought after
The heart; at last, youth! do you burn up
You restless, dreamy!
Old age is peaceful and cheerful.
Emergence
During the Homburg phase, Hölderlin reflected on his own poetic skills and worked on theoretical writings and the Empedocles fragment. It was precisely the intense preoccupation with tragedy that had an effect on the odes of this time with their self-reflective features.
Of the three odes published, Der Main was probably written before Abendphantasie and Des Morgens , a work that may be related to a copperplate engraving on the calendar.
The course of the poem reveals the dramatic structure of which Holderlin spoke in his theoretical writings in connection with the drama.
Dubbing
For his Six Songs based on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin for tenor and piano , Paul Hindemith chose, among other things, the poem Evening Fantasy .
In his Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin , composed in 1982 , György Ligeti set the evening fantasy to music for a 16-part a cappella choir .
literature
- Andreas Thomasberger: Odes, Analysis and Interpretation , in: Hölderlin-Handbuch. Life work effect . Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-476-01704-4 (special edition 2011: ISBN 978-3-476-02402-2 ), pp. 309-319
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Andreas Thomasberger, Oden, in: Hölderlin-Handbuch, Leben work, effect, Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2011, p. 314
- ^ Friedrich Hölderlin, Complete Works and Letters, Volume 1, Evening Fantasy, Ed. Günter Mieth , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 339
- ↑ Peter Andraschke: Hölderlin fragments . In: Hermann Danuser (Ed.): The musical work of art. History. Aesthetics. Theory. Festschrift Carl Dahlhaus on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Laaber 1988, p. 746 .