Rückert-Lieder
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The Rückert-Lieder are 5 songs for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert.
They are:
- Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! − Do not look at my songs! (14 June 1901)
- Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft − I breathed a gentle fragrance (July 1901)
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen − I have become lost to the world (16 August 1901)
- Um Mitternacht − At midnight (Summer 1901)
- Liebst du um Schönheit − If You Love for Beauty (August 1902)
Together with the Kindertotenlieder (also on poems by Rückert) the first four songs were premiered on 29 January 1905 in Vienna, with Mahler conducting.
Together with Revelge and Der Tamboursg’sell (on poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and later incorporated into Mahler’s Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn") they were first published in 1905 as Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit (Seven Songs of Latter Days).
[edit] External links
- Lyrics
- Chronology and discography (in French)
- 5 Rückert-Lieder (MIDI)
