Là s’élançait un arbre. Oh, pur surpassement ! [ ... ]
Orpheus
Song Cycle by François Cotinaud (b. 1956)
1. Un temple dans l'écoute  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Armel Guerne (1911 - 1980), no title, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 1
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Les Sonnets à Orphée, traduits de l’allemand par Armel Guerne, Paris : Seuil, 1972, p. 107
2. Elle était une enfant
Et presque elle était un enfant qui jaillissait de l'unique bonheur du chant et de la lyre claire et brillante sous des voiles de printemps et qui se prépara sa couche en mon oreille . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 2
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3. Le pavot des morts
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 9
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