Welcome and Farewell
Welcome and Farewell is one of the Sesenheimer songs of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. It is one of his most famous poems and published (yet untitled ) for the first time in 1775 in the " Women's Magazine " Iris. The second version was published in 1789 as a welcome and farewell. In the factory edition 1810, the poem appeared then for the third time, and for the first time under the title Welcome and Farewell, under which it is known today.
Formation
Goethe wrote the vierstrophige, continuous standing in the cross rhyme love song in his Strasbourg period, probably in the spring of 1771, at that time very smitten with the Sessenheimer ( Sesenheimer songs) pastor's daughter Friederike Brion.
Similar to the recently written down Mailied it is attributed nor the Sturm und Drang period of German poetry. The rapid change of feelings and impressions, the safe inclusion of impure rhymes ( Oak | shrubs, joy | Page Spring Weather | gods ) and the ecstatic conclusion can justify this.
Content
The poem is written from the perspective of a young man who told in the past tense of a meeting with his mistress. In troubled mood the lyric I will first describe the frightening nocturnal landscape through which it rides; it is ecstatic encounter with the - directly addressed - girls and finally portrayed in a constant alternation of joy and pain of parting.
Text
The von Goethe repeatedly revised text read in the oldest form in which the girl accompanied her lover until his horse:
My heart was beating. Geschwind, on horseback! And continued, wild like a hero to battle. The evening was already cradling the earth, And at the mountains hung the night. Even stood in the fog dress the oak Like a giant getürmter there, Where darkness from the bushes Saw with a hundred black eyes. The moon from a hill of clouds Saw sleepily out through the haze, The winds softly wing, Whistling eerily about my ear. The night created a thousand monsters, But a thousand times was my courage, My mind was a consuming fire, My whole heart burst into fire. I saw you, and the gentle joy Raft from the sweet look on me. Full my heart was at your side, And every breath for you. A rosy spring weather Lay on the lovely face And tenderness for me, ye gods, I had hoped for this, I never deserved it. The farewell, as harassed as dull! From your eyes And thy heart. In your kisses that love, O what joy, what pain! You went, I stood and looked at the ground And you looked with moist eyes. And yet, what luck, loved, And love, gods, what luck!
Musical settings
Musical settings as an art song for voice and piano created, inter alia, Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1794 ), Franz Schubert ( D 767; 1822), Hans Pfitzner (op. 29.3; 1922) and Winfried Zillig (1944).