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Rückert-Lieder – Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost My Way In The World)
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:19:19
Publish Date: 2010-09-24 00:21:41
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The Work


Key: F major in piano version; E-flat major in orchestral version (with modulations into A-flat and then C major and minor.
[N.B., the volume of the Critical Edition of Mahler’s works prepared under the auspices of the International Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Vienna, devoted to the orchestral version of four Rückert-Lieder includes 2 orchestral versions of this song, one in F and the other in E-flat. (See Band XIV, Teilband 4)].

Tempo: Äussert langsam und zurückhaltend (extremely slow and held back)
Time Signature: 4/4 (with one measure of 2/4).
Form: through-composed but with three distinct sections, the second of which contrasts somewhat with the others.

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,
Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben,
Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen,
Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben!

Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen,
Ob sie mich für gestorben hält,
Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen,
Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt.

Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel,
Und ruh’ in einem stillen Gebiet!
Ich leb’ allein in meinem Himmel,
In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied!

 I have lost my way in the world
With which I used to waste much time;
It has heard nothing of me for so long,
It may well think I am dead!

And for me it is of no concern at all
If it considers me dead,
Nor can I say anything against it,
For in truth I am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world’s tummelt
And rest in a place of quietness!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love, in my song.
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