Welcome and Farewell
"Welcome and Farewell" (original German title: Willkommen und Abschied) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from the collection Sesenheimer Lieder . It was published for the first time in 1775 in the women's magazine Iris . Franz Schubert set it to music as a lied (D.767).
Origin and content
In 1770 Goethe went to Strasbourg and assumedly wrote the love song in the following spring of 1771.[1] It was written in the spirit of the Sturm und Drang period for the daughter of a parson, Friederike Brion.
Text
Es schlug mein Herz, geschwind zu Pferde! |
Quick throbb'd my heart: to horse! haste, haste |
My heart beat fast, a horse! away! |
In music and film
The poem has been set to music as a Lied for voice and piano by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1794), Franz Schubert (D 767; 1822), Hans Pfitzner (op. 29,3; 1922) und Winfried Zillig (1944).[4]
In the 2010 German movie Young Goethe in Love, the poem is being recited by the protagonist and its content plays a central role in the movie.
References
- ^ Assumption by Erich Trunz (ed.): Goethes Werke. Hamburg Edition, vol. I, Christian Wegner, Hamburg 1948, p. 453.
- ^ Bowring, Edgar Alfred (1874) [1853]. The Poems of Goethe – Translated in the Original metres (2nd ed.). New York: Hurst & Co. pp. 51–52.
- ^ Johann Wolfgan von Goethe (1994). Selected Poems. Vol. vol. 1. Christopher Middleton (editor, translator). Princeton University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780691036588.
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External links
- German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Willkommen und Abschied (1775)
- German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Willkommen und Abschied (1827)