Canvi | Una dona que plorava

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

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Mutation

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER GER

Une femme qui pleurait
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des soldats qui passaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Un éclusier qui pêchait
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Les tranchées qui blanchissaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des obus qui pétaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des allumettes qui ne prenaient pas
  Et tout
    A tant changé
      En moi
    Tout
      Sauf mon Amour
        Eh ! Oh ! Ha !

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Mutation", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 3. Case d'Armons, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [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 Rafał Augustyn (b. 1951), "Mutation", 1991, published 1997 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq calligrammes d'Apollinaire pour soprano et piano, no. 2, Poznan, Brevis [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Mutation", op. 71 no. 3 (1939), published 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Apollinaire, no. 3, Éd. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Mutation", FP 140 no. 2 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 2, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Zuidam (b. 1964), "Mutation", published 2001 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Canvi", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Mutation", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Veränderung", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Veränderung", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 55

Canvi

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

Una dona que plorava
  Eh! Oh! Ha!
Soldats que desfilaven
  Eh! Oh! Ha!
Un assuter que pescava
  Eh! Oh! Ha!
Les trinxeres que s’emblanquien
  Eh! Oh! Ha!
Obusos que esclataven
  Eh! Oh! Ha!
Llumins que no s'encenien
i tot
   ha canviat tant
       dins meu
   tot
      excepte el meu Amor
         Eh! Oh! Ha!

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Mutation", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 3. Case d'Armons, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-22
Line count: 17
Word count: 52