Brahim, l’astronome est, fort savant. Il sait vers quel point du ciel une comète se dirige, mais il ignore où sa femme retrouve, chaque soir, son amant.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des Caresses, L'édition D'art H. Piazza, p. 94
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "L'astronome", written 1911?, appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 93, 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 Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "L'Astronome", published 1924 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lionel Noël Ferdinand Daunais (1902 - 1982), "L'astronome" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Amable Massis (1893 - 1980), "L'Astronome", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Le Jardin des caresses, no. 2, Paris : éditions Costallat : Lucien de Lacour, éditeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto di Pierlas , "L'Astronome", published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Chants extraits du Jardin des caresses, no. 5, Publication : Paris : R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Pollet (1883 - 1961), "L'astronome", 1915, published 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants arabes, no. 2, Paris, Éditions Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Quinet (1898 - 1971), "L'Astronome", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies orientales, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Vuataz (1898 - 1988), "L'astronome", op. 17 no. 3 (1925) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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