by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Du vin ! Du vin, en torrent !
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Du vin ! Du vin, en torrent ! Qu'il bondisse dans mes veines ! Qu'il bouillonne dans ma tête ! Des coupes... Ne parle plus ! Tout n'est que mensonge. Des coupes... Vite ! J'ai déjà vieilli...
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 79, Paris, Éd. Piazza, first published 1924 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [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 Carlos Tuxen-Bang (b. 1933), "Du vin, en torrent !", 1964 [ baritone and piano ], from Robaiyat d'Omar Khayyam, 15 quatrains traduits du persan par Frans Toussaint, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
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