Cécile | Der Chinaboss aus Lancaster

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by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Cécile

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Le grandchinois de Lancastre
vous attire avec des fleurs
puis vous inonde d'odeurs...
bientôt sa pipe est votre astre!
Du lys au pavot, Cécile,
la route, hélas, est docile.

Text Authorship:

by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921 [author's text not yet checked 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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Cécile", H. 148 no. 3 (1941), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Cécile", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Cécile", copyright © 2006, (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.
Line count: 6
Word count: 29

Cécile

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

Der Chinaboss aus Lancaster
lockt euch mit Blumen an,
ertränkt im Duft euch dann...
sein Pfeifchen wird euch zum Desaster!
Von Lilien zum Mohn, Cécile,
braucht es leider nicht sehr viel.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2006 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 Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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This text was added to the website: 2006-11-04
Line count: 6
Word count: 31