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by Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919)

Les lacs
Language: French (Français) 
Les lacs, dans leurs paumes
  rondes noient le visage du Ciel :

J'ai tourné la sphère
  pour observer le Ciel.

Les lacs, frappés d'échos
  fraternels en nombre douze :

J'ai fondu les douze cloches
  qui fixent les tons musicaux.

                               O

Lac mouvant, firmament liquide
  à l'envers, cloche musicale,

Que l'homme recevant mes mesures retentisse
  à son tour sous le puissant Souverain-Ciel.

Pour cela j'ai nommé l'hymne 
  de mon règne : les Lacs.

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919), "Les lacs", written 1910-1911, appears in Stèles, in 1. Stèles face au midi, in 2. Les trois hymnes primitifs, no. 1, first published 1914 [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 Georges Elbert Migot (1891 - 1976), "Les lacs", published 1934 [ medium voice and instrumental ensemble ], from Deux stèles de Victor Segalen, no. 2, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gilles Schuehmacher (b. 1977), "Les Lacs", op. 18 no. 1 (1999), first performed 2000 [ baritone or counter-tenor and piano ], from Les Trois Hymnes primitifs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-19
Line count: 15
Word count: 69

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