Sur un jardin fardé de lune, l'ombre noire d'un olivier s'arrondit. Sur la joue pâle d'une jeune fille, un amant a posé sa bouche. L'ombre de l'olivier tourne sur le jardin. La bouche de l'amant parcourt le visage de la jeune fille.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, p.56
Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Clair de lune", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 54, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marcel Bernheim (1892 - 1963), "Clair de lune", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes Arabes extraits du “Jardin des Caresses” de Franz Toussaint, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "Clair de lune", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Clair de lune", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
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