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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud

Cristal de Bohême
Language: French (Français) 
Un rayon de lune enfermé
Dans un beau flacon de Bohême,
Tel est le féerique poème,
Que dans ces rondels j’ai rimé.

Je suis en Pierrot costumé,
Pour offrir à celle que j’aime
Un rayon de lune enfermé
Dans un beau flacon de Bohême.

Par ce symbole est exprimé
O ma très chère, tout moi-même :
Comme Pierrot, dans son chef blême,
Je sens, sous mon masque grimé,
Un rayon de lune enfermé.

Confirmed with Albert Giraud, Héros et Pierrots, Paris, Librairie Fischbacher (Collection des poètes français de l’étranger), 1898, pages 175-176.


Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Cristal de Bohême", written 1884, appears in Pierrot lunaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1884 [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 Carl Prohaska (1869 - 1927), "Cristal de Bohême", op. 14 no. 6 [ high voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, no. 6, Zürich, Éd. Musikhaus Üni Verlag [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Böhmischer Krystall", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Miriam Gideon, Otto Vrieslander.
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