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by Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755 - 1829)

La mort de Sardanapale
Language: French (Français) 
Sardanapale et chœur (ensemble)

Sardanapale
 Jamais la mémoire.
 Non, l'enivrante volupté
 A pu dans le sommeil me ravir la victoire,
 Mais non pas ma fierté.
 Jadis la gloire et les plaisirs
 Faisaient la douceur de ma vie;
 Un sort cruel me l'a ravie;
 Abandonnons ces souvenirs.
 Qu'un beau trépas, digne de moi,
 Dise encore après moi ma gloire,
 Et du courage d'un grand roi
 Redise à jamais la mémoire.

Chœur:
 Abandonnons ces doux souvenirs.
 Il te reste ta fierté.
 Qu'un beau trépas, digne de toi,
 Dise encore après toi ta gloire,
 Et du courage d'un grand roi
 Redise à jamais la mémoire.

Sardanapale:
 Néhala!

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755 - 1829) [author's text not yet checked 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 Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869), "La mort de Sardanapale", 1830, fragment [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2008-04-26
Line count: 23
Word count: 104

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