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Det er Nat paa vide Vande, langt fra [Lande, langt fra Lande]1. Valborgsnat så lys og skjær. Lavt mod Nattehimlens Rande ryger Dagens røde Brande og om Verden, fjernt og nær, tindrer tusind Stjernes Hær. Nat henover vide Vande.
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View text without footnotes1 Backer-Grøndahl: "Lande"
Text Authorship:
- by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893 [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Valborgsnat paa Havet", op. 31 (Ti Sange til Digte af Vilhelm Krag) no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Det er Nat paa vide Vande", op. 41 (Fem sange for mezzosopran) no. 4 (1897), published 1897 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2007-10-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 41
Il fait nuit sur les vastes flots, loin de la [terre, loin de la terre]1. nuit de Valborg si lumineuse et si pure. Au bord du ciel nocturne les rouges feux du jour brûlent et autour du monde, au loin et au près, l'armée de mille étoiles s'allume. Nuit, au-dessus des vastes flots.
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View text without footnotesNote: La nuit du 30 avril au 1 mai était appelée nuit de Valborg dans les pays scandinave, c'était une fête de printemps au cours de laquelle on faisait brûler des feux de joie.
1 Backer-Grøndahl: "terre"Text Authorship:
- Translation from Norwegian (Bokmål) to French (Français) copyright © 2012 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Norwegian (Bokmål) by Vilhelm Krag (1871 - 1933), no title, appears in Sange fra Syden: Reiseindtryk og stemninger, in Nordsjøen, in Valborgsnat paa havet, no. 1, first published 1893
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 55