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Als wir hinter dem beblümten Tore

by Arnold Schoenberg From Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Op. 15

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Als wir hinter dem beblümten Tore
German source: Stefan George

Als wir hinter dem beblümten Tore
Endlich nur das eigne Hauchen spürten
Warden uns erdachte Seligkeiten?
Ich erinnere dass wie schwache Rohre
Beide stumm zu beben wir begannen
Wenn wir leis nur an uns rührten
Und dass unsre Augen rannen –
So verbliebest du mir lang zu Seiten.

Composer

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

Poet

Stefan George

Stefan Anton George (12 July 1868 – 4 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, and Charles Baudelaire. Read more about his life here. Read some of his poetry here in the original…

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