Die Heuschrecke | Die Heuschrecke, die feine

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

La sauterelle

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER ITA

Voici la fine sauterelle, 
La nourriture de saint Jean. 
Puissent mes vers être comme elle, 
Le régal des meilleures gens.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La sauterelle", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 17, first published 1911 [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 Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "La Sauterelle", op. 1b no. 17 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 17, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "La Sauterelle", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 9, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La sauterelle", op. 17a no. 17 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 17 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La sauterelle", FP 15a no. 3 (1919), published 1920 [ medium voice and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 3, Éd. de La Sirène [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "The locust", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Heuschrecke", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "La cavalletta", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 20

Die Heuschrecke

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Die Heuschrecke, die feine,
war Heiligen Johannes’ Speise.
Könnten nicht den Besten meine
Verse Schmaus sein, gleicherweise.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La sauterelle", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 17, first published 1911
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This text was added to the website: 2017-02-10
Line count: 4
Word count: 17