Welcome and Farewell
Welcome and Farewell is one of the Sesenheim songs by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . It is one of his most famous poems and was first published in 1775 (still without a title) in the "ladies' magazine" Iris . The second version appeared in 1789 as a welcome and farewell . The poem then appeared for the third time in the 1810 edition , and for the first time under the title Willkommen und Abschied , by which it is known today.
Emergence
Goethe wrote the love song with four stanzas, continuously in cross rhyme , during his time in Strasbourg, probably in the spring of 1771, at that time very enraptured by the Sessenheimer ( Sesenheimer Lieder ) pastor's daughter Friederike Brion .
Similar to the Mailied written down shortly before , it is still attributed to the Sturm und Drang period of German poetry. The rapid change of feelings and impressions and the ecstatic ending can justify this.
content
The poem is written from the perspective of a young man who tells in the past tense of a meeting with his lover. In a turbulent mood, the lyrical self first describes the frightening nocturnal landscape through which it rides; then the encounter with the - directly addressed - girl and finally, in a constant alternation of joy and pain, the farewell is described.
text
The text, revised several times by Goethe, read in the earliest form, in which the girl still accompanies the lover to his horse:
It was beating my heart. Hurry up on horseback!
And away, wild as a hero to battle.
The evening already rocked the earth,
And the night hung on the mountains.
Already the oak stood there in the mist
like a towered giant,
Where darkness saw from the bushes
With a hundred black eyes.
The moon from a
hill of clouds looked sleepily
out of the fragrance,
The winds gently swung wings,
horribly tumbled around my ear.
The night created a thousand monsters,
But my courage
was a thousandfold, my spirit was a consuming fire,
my whole heart melted into embers.
I saw you, and the mild joy
flowed from the sweet look at me.
My heart was at your side,
And every breath for you.
A rose-colored spring weather
lay on the lovely face
And tenderness for me, gods,
I hope it, I don't deserve it.
The farewell, how distressed, how gloomy!
Your heart spoke from your gaze.
In your kisses what love,
O what bliss, what pain!
You went, I stood and looked to earth
And looked after you with wet eyes.
And yet, what happiness to be loved,
And love, gods, what happiness!
Settings
Settings as an art song for voice and piano created a. a. Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1794), Franz Schubert (D 767; 1822), Hans Pfitzner (op.29,3; 1922) and Winfried Zillig (1944).
literature
- Eckhardt Meyer-Krentler: Welcome and farewell. - Heartbeat and lash. Goethe - Mörike - Heine , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1987.
- Wulf Segebrecht : How Goethe treated his most beautiful youth poems . In: Revista de Filología Alemana 8/2000, pp. 81–93 (on “Welcome and Farewell” especially pp. 86–93). Digitized version , PDF download , accessed on November 28, 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Assumption by Erich Trunz (ed.): Goethe's works . Hamburg edition, Vol. I, Christian Wegner, Hamburg 1948, p. 453.
- ↑ Based on the copy from Friederike Brion's estate. See Erich Trunz (ed.): Goethe's works . Hamburg edition, Vol. I, Christian Wegner, Hamburg 1948, p. 28 f.
- ↑ Welcome and farewell to lieder.net, accessed on February 13, 2016
- ↑ Interpretation of Welcome and Farewell - Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Retrieved April 1, 2017 .