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La fausse magie

Opera by André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741 - 1813)

Comme un éclair
 (Sung text for setting by A. Grétry)
 Matches base text

Language: French (Français) 
Comme un éclair la flateuse espérance
brille à mes yeux et semble voltiger
en moi renaît le calme et l’assurance
Je ne vois plus qu'à l’ombre du danger
calme trompeur hélas vaine assurance
comme un éclair léger bientôt s’envole
et s’éteint l’espérance 
et je revois l’image du danger.

Comme un éclair la flateuse espérance
brille à mes yeux et semble voltiger
pour la saisir mon coeur s’élance
elle s’enfuit comme un songe léger.

Comme un éclair...

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean-François Marmontel (1723 - 1799) [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):

Set by André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741 - 1813), 1775, first performed 1775 [ soprano and orchestra ]

Note: the modern spelling of "flateuse" is "flatteuse" (lines 1-1 and 2-1)


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