Reeds

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The reed lilies form a cycle of poems by Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850) published in 1832 . It is a melancholy love poem with a narrative-contemplative character, in which the lyrical ego sadly dreams of an impossible love. Lenau uses the natural symbolism typical of late Romanticism in the sense of a soul landscape as a central design element .

Form and content

The cycle consists of five poems that correspond in the consistent Trochaic meter and the cross rhyme scheme . In the work edition of Cotta-Verlag , three further poems are assigned to the reed lilies that were not originally part of the cycle, namely the well-known poem Winter Night , furthermore Mute Love and Change of Longing .

  • Over there the sun sets
  • It's getting cloudy, the clouds are chasing
  • sunset
  • On a secret forest path
  • On the pond, the motionless one

Settings

  • The cycle was set to music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) , among others .
  • August Klughardt composed fantasy pieces based on Lenau's reed lilac poems for oboe, viola and piano.
  • Kurt Weill composed Schilflieder in 1919 , a song cycle based on texts by Lenau. The work is considered lost.
  • Alban Berg set 7 early songs to music in his cycle on a secret forest path (1905-08 / 1928).
  • Artur Immisch set "On the pond, the motionless" to music

literature

  • Lenau's Complete Works in Four Volumes . Volume 1. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart.
  • Reed Lottchen . In: The Gazebo . Issue 1, 1883, pp. 11 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog raisonné . Kurt Weill Center