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Chanson éloignée

Set by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "Chanson éloignée" [ mixed chorus ] [Sung Text]

Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.


Ce soir mon cœur fait chanter
des anges qui se souviennent...
Une voix, presque mienne,
par trop de silence tentée,

monte et se décide
à ne plus revenir ;
tendre et intrépide,
à quoi va-t-elle s'unir ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 1

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

  • ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann



Ô chant éloigné, suprême lyre,
qui ne se donne qu'à celui qui ardemment
et sans repos supporte et endure
de son effort le long et doux martyre
Ô chant qui naît le dernier pour conclure
l'enfance non terminée, le cœur d'antan.
 ... 

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Ébauches et Fragments

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]



Où je ne voulais que chanter,
il m'a été accordé
l'honneur de la vie

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Ébauches et Fragments

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]


Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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