Evening serenade

Clemens Brentano (after 1833)

Evening serenade is a poem by Clemens Brentano from 1802. It is inserted into the musical play “ The funny musicians ”.

structure

The poem consists of two stanzas. The stanza form is a quatrain with female rhyming trochaic quatrains .

text

Elevations are in italics in the first stanza. The spelling follows the Frankfurt Brentano edition FBA 12.

Hear it kla gt floe te as the,

And the cow len Brun NEN rough rule.

Gol to we h'n the Tö ne never the,

Style le, style le, let us lau rule!

Hold desires, mild desires,

How it speaks sweetly to the heart!

Through the night that embrace me

Look at me of the light of tones.

interpretation

According to Killy, the poem has an apperceptive effect , so that the wall between nature and soul appears permeable. If a person perceives sensitively, he may be aware of his limits. Brentano is now abolishing those limits with his words. Searching for meaning behind Brentano's magical pictures is mostly in vain. Something like music arises from the verse, but not meaning.

reception

• According to Schulz, the synesthetic Brentano articulates himself in the poem .
• Riley and Schultz name further investigations: H. Rüdiger (1952), Albrecht Schöne (Die deutsche Lyrik, Vol. 2: From late romanticism to the present. Benno von Wiese (ed.), Düsseldorf 1956, pp. 11-18) and Otto Eberhardt (Suggestion 24, Munich 1978, pp. 308-317).

Settings

Johannes Brahms : Three songs for six-part choir a cappella , op.42, number 1.

literature

sorted by year of publication

• Walther Killy : Clemens Brentano. Evening serenade. P. 80–81 in: Karl Hotz (Ed.): Poems from seven centuries. Interpretations. 311 pages. CC Buchner, Bamberg 1990 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-7661-4311-5 . Taken from: Walther Killy: Changes in the lyrical image . S. 55. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978
• Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 1. The Age of the French Revolution: 1789–1806. 763 pages. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-00727-9
• Helene M. Kastinger Riley : Clemens Brentano. Metzler Collection, Vol. 213. Stuttgart 1985. 166 pages, ISBN 3-476-10213-0
• Horst Joachim Frank: Handbook of the German strophic forms . Francke Tübingen 1993 (2nd edition). 885 pages. ISBN 3-7720-2221-9
• Hartwig Schultz (Ed.): Clemens Brentano. 1778–1842 on the 150th anniversary of his death. 341 pages. Peter Lang, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-906750-94-9

Quoted text edition

• FBA 12: Hartwig Schultz (Ed.): The funny musicians. Singspiel. P. 797–877 in Jürgen Behrens (Ed.), Wolfgang Frühwald (Ed.), Detlev Lüders (Ed.): Clemens Brentano. All works and letters. Volume 12. Dramas I. 970 pages. Linen. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007043-6

Web links

• The text at Zeno.org
• The text in projekt-gutenberg.org

Individual evidence

“Source” means the quoted text edition.

1. ↑ Source, p. 819, 9. Zvo
2. ^ Frank, p. 197
3. ↑ Emphasis: emphasis on a syllable or a word.
4. ↑ FBA 12, p. 819
5. ↑ Schulz, p. 636 below
6. ^ Riley, p. 89, second entry
7. ↑ Schultz, p. 312
8. ↑ Ursula Wiedenmann: The musical Brentano reception. In: Kurt Feilchenfeldt and Luciano Zagari: The Brentano. A European family. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-484-67006-8 , pp. 146-170; here p. 161
9. ^ The first edition was published by Hanser in Munich.