by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919)
Prélude
Language: French (Français)
Les bergers, s'étant éveillés, virent dans les cieux les anges se dirigeant vers Bethléem; les airs s'emplirent de leurs chants, puis ils s'éloignèrent... Alors, les bergers ayant connu que le Sauveur était né, ils allèrent l'adorer...
Confirmed with Stéphan Bordèse, Contes mystiques. Musique de..., Paris, A. Durand & Fils, 1890, page 3. Note: this is an epigraph without line breaks, which we have added arbitrarily above.
Authorship:
- by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919), "Prélude", subtitle: "Ce que l'on entendit dans la nuit de Noël", appears in Contes mystiques, no. 1 [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 Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (1847 - 1903), "Prélude", 1890, published 1890 [ piano ], from Contes mystiques, no. 1, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck ; note: this movement is for piano only but refers to the poem indicated [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-16
Line count: 4
Word count: 36