Verklärte Nacht

by Arnold Schoenberg

Arranged for piano

by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2013

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 Verklärte Nacht
Gedicht von Richard Dehmel (aus "Weib und Welt")
Zwei menschen gehn durch kahlen, kalten Hain;
der Mond läuft mit, sie schaun hinein.
Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen
kein Wölkchen trübt das Himmelslicht,
in das die schwarzen Zacken reichen.
Die Stimme eines Weibes spricht :
Ich trag ein Kind, und nit von Dir
ich geh in Sünde neben Dir.
Ich hab mich schwer an mir vergangen.
Ich glaubte nicht mehr an ein Glück
und hatte doch ein schwer Verlangen
nach Lebensinhalt, nach Mutterglück
und Pflicht; da hab ich mich erfrecht,
da liess ich schaudernd mein Geschlecht
von einem fremden Mann umfangen,
und hab mich noch dafür gesegnet.
Nun hat das Leben sich gerächt:
nun bin ich Dir, o Dir begegnet.
Sie geht mit ungelenkten Schritt.
Sie schaut empor; der Mond läuft mit.
Ihr dunkler Blick ertrinkt in Licht.
Die Stimme eines Mannes spricht :
Das Kind das Du empfangen hast,
sei Deiner Seele keine Last.
O sieh, wie klar das Weltall schimmert !
Es ist ein Glanz um Alles her,
Du treibst mit mir auf kaltem Meer,
doch eine eigne Wärme flimmert
von Dir in mich, von mir in Dich.
Die wird das fremde Kind verklären
Du wirst es mir, von mir gebären ;
Du hast den Glanz in mich gebracht,
Du hast mich selbst zum Kind gemacht.
Er fasst sie um die starken Hüften.
Ihr Atem küsst sich in den Lüften.
Zwei Menschen gehn durch hohe, helle Nacht.
Two people go through bare cold meadow;
the moon walks with them, they gaze into it.
The moon walks over tall oak-trees
no cloud veils the moonlight,
in which the black tree-tops reach up.
A woman’s voice speaks :
I carry a child, and not yours
I walk in sin beside you.
I have done myself great harm.
I no longer thought I could find happiness
and yet I had a heavy need
for the substance of life, for mother’s joy
and duty; then I made myself bold,
and, shuddering, let my sex
be grasped by an unknown man,
and even counted myself as blessed.
Now life has taken its revenge:
now I have found you, o you.
She walks with lost and awkward step.
She glances up; the moon walks with them.
Her sombre face drowns in its light.
A man’s voice speaks :
The child that you have conceived,
may it not burden your mind.
See, how clearly shines the universe!
A brilliance surrounds all,
You voyage with me on a cold sea,
and yet some points of warmth glimmer
of you in me, of me in you.
They will transfigure this stranger’s child
you will bear it for me, from me ;
You have have brought a brilliance to me,
You have made me too a child.
He held her by her strong hips.
Their breaths kissed in the breeze.
Two people walk through high bright night.
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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to
1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Director
of the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computer
programmer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at the Conservatorium,
conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice and harpsichord. He founded
www.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, with on-line delivery,
taking scores from Composer to Performer in one immediate step. Www.pjb.com.au offers a new
approach to music publishing. These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !

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Curves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990; Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melody
instruments, 1991; Trombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994; Three Songs, on
poems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these are
available), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994; Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,
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