La blanche neige | Les anges les anges dans le ciel

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

Les anges les anges dans le ciel

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG

Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L’un est vêtu en officier
L’un est vêtu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent

Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps après Noël
Te médaillera d’un beau soleil
        D’un beau soleil

Le cuisinier plume les oies
        Ah ! tombe neige
        Tombe et que n’ai-je
Ma bien-aimée entre mes bras

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools: poèmes 1898-2013, Paris: Gallimard, 1920, Page 65.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La blanche neige", written 1911, appears in Alcools, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "La blanche neige", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Ledent , "La blanche neige", op. 9 no. 1 (1933) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Bohuslav Martinů (1890 - 1959), "La neige blanche", 1930, from Trois Mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La blanche neige", FP. 81 no. 1 [ chorus ], from Sept chansons, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "La Blanche neige", 1962 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-12
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