by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)
Le tango
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Le tango est la danse du diable. C'est celle qu'il préfère. Il la danse pour se refroidir. Sa femme, ses filles et ses domestiques se refroidissent.
Authorship:
- by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925) [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 Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "Le tango", 1914 [piano], from Sports et divertissements, no. 16, note: the text comes from remarks written in the score [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , title 1: "The tango", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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