Songs

Die Entschlafenen

by Margarete Schweikert

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'Die Entschlafenen' performed by Harriet Burns & Keval Shah as part of the Forgotten Voices lecture-recital series, curated by Kitty Whately and Natasha Loges, and produced in collaboration with SWAP'ra (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera). Filmed by TallWall Media, at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of the Oxford Lieder Spring Song Festival 2022. 

'Die Entschlafenen' performed by Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton, on their album 'Befreit - A Soul Surrendered' released in February 2023. Listen here on Spotify.

Text

Die Entschlafenen
German source: Friedrich Hölderlin

Einen vergänglichen Tag lebt’ ich
und wuchs mit den Meinen,
Eins um’s andere schon schläft mir
und fliehet dahin.
Doch ihr Schlafenden wacht am Herzen mir, in verwandter
Seele ruhet von euch mir
das entfliehende Bild.
Und lebendiger lebt ihr dort,
wo des göttlichen Geistes
Freude die Alternden all,
alle die Toten verjüngt.

Composer

Margarete Schweikert

Study event exploring the life and work of Margarete Schweikert. Filmed in March 2022 by TallWall Media.  COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY Margarete Schweikert (1887-1957) was a violinist, composer, pianist, teacher and critic based in Karlsruhe in South-West…

Poet

Friedrich Hölderlin

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his…

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