Mortui (from Passiesonnetten) (Edouard Potjes)
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- (Posted 2010-05-22) CPDL #14817: Noteworthy Composer
- Editors: Jeroen Potjes and Theo Potjes (submitted 2006-04-30). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 97 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Mortui (No. 10 from Passiesonnetten - Passion Sonnets)
Composer: Edouard Potjes
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Sacred, Lied
Languages: Dutch, German
Instruments: Piano
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Original text and translations
Dutch text En is de man van smarten nu een kind des doods geworden? |
German text Und ist der Mann der Schmerzen nun ein Kind des Tods geworden? |
English translation
And has the Man of Sorrows now become worthy to die?
Is his mouth closed forever?
The eyes without light and blind:
Has the light of life fled from the Son of Light?
He is silent…
But the earth, touched by his blood
now gives the answers with quake and tremble
and shakes awake the dead,
who creak in the underworld;
as a sea of life,
no longer restrained and tossing up,
rocks ripping, until it swarms out the dead
gathering them with the living!
Thus, death becomes a silent witness
when the proud man confesses and bows down:
Truly, this was the Son of God!