La cloche fêlée
Language: French (Français)
Il est amer et doux, pendant les nuits d'hiver,
D'écouter, près du feu qui palpite et qui fume,
Les souvenirs lointains lentement s'élever
Au bruit des carillons qui chantent dans la brume.
Bienheureuse la cloche au gosier vigoureux
Qui, malgré sa vieillesse, alerte et bien portante,
Jette fidèlement son cri religieux,
Ainsi qu'un vieux soldat qui veille sous la tente!
Moi, mon âme est fêlée, et lorsqu'en ses ennuis
Elle veut de ses chants peupler l'air froid des nuits,
Il arrive souvent que sa voix affaiblie
Semble le râle épais d'un blessé qu'on oublie
Au bord d'un lac de sang, sous un grand tas de morts,
Et qui meurt, sans bouger, dans d'immenses efforts.
Translation(s): ENG GER
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Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Raoul Bardac (1881 - 1950), "La cloche fêlée", 1905, published 1905 [medium voice and piano], from Cinq Mélodies, no. 5, Éd. E. Demets [ sung text not verified ]
- by Emmanuel Bondeville (1898 - 1987), "La cloche fêlée", published 1927 [high voice and piano], from Deux Mélodies, no. 2, Ed. Max Eschig [ sung text not verified ]
- by Armand Bournonville (d. 1957), "La cloche fêlée", published 1924 [high voice and piano], Éd. Maurice Senart [ sung text not verified ]
- by Francisco Ernani Costa Braga (1888 - 1948), "La cloche fêlée" [voice and piano], Rio de Janeiro: Casa Arthur Napoleão [ sung text not verified ]
- by Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "La cloche fêlée", 1924, published 1926 [medium voice and piano], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [ sung text not verified ]
- by André Caplet (1879 - 1925), "La cloche fêlée", 1922, published 1924 [medium voice and piano], from Deux Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, no. 1, Éd. Durand [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947), "La cloche fêlée" [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956), "La cloche fêlée", 1890, published 1894 [high voice and piano], from Poèmes chantés, no. 2, Éd. H. Tellier [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Claude Duboscq (1897 - 1938), "La cloche fêlée", 1918, published 1918 [high voice and piano], from Trois poèmes de C. Baudelaire, no. 3, Éd. E. Demets [ sung text not verified ]
- by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "La cloche fêlée", 1933, published 1934 [medium voice and piano], from Dix poèmes pour chant et piano, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [ sung text not verified ]
- by Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (1861 - 1935), "La cloche fêlée", op. 5 (Quatre poèmes pour voix, alto et piano) no. 1 (1893), published 1904 [voice, viola, and piano], New York, Schirmer [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "La cloche fêlée", op. 45 no. 4 (1921), published 1924 [voice and piano], from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire, no. 4, Éd. Salabert (Maurice Sénart) [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "The cracked bell", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Terese Robinson, née Therese Langenbach) , "Die zersprungene Glocke", first published 1925
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