by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Le Départ
Language: French (Français)
Et leurs visages étaient pâles Et leurs sanglots s’étaient brisés Comme la neige aux purs pétales Ou bien tes mains sur mes baisers Tombaient les feuilles automnales
Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Départ", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in La tête étoilée, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Départ", 1939 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Le Départ", 1925-1926, published 1929 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Huit poèmes, no. 5, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (b. 1924), "Le Départ", 1961, copyright © 1980, first performed 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de G. Apollinaire, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989); composed by Earl Kim.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-24
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Word count: 27