Les folles d'amour | Je t'aimerai, déesse Vénus, si tu préfères

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by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Las locas por amor

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

-- "Te amaré, diosa Venus, si prefieres
que te ame mucho tiempo y con cordura."
Y respondió la diosa de Citeres:
--"Prefiero, como todas las mujeres,
que me amen poco tiempo y con locura."¹

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Turina

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¹ Turina adds

"Te amaré diosa Venus, te amaré."

Text Authorship:

by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), "Las locas por amor" [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 Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949), "Las locas por amor", op. 19 no. 5 (1917), published 1923 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Poema en forma de canciones, no. 5, Madrid: UME [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Mad for love", copyright © 2020
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les folles d'amour", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Verrückt vor Liebe", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Jeroen Scholten

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 33

Les folles d'amour

Language: French (Français) after the Spanish (Español)

Je t'aimerai, déesse Vénus, si tu préfères
Que je t'aime longtemps et sagement,
Et la déesse de Cythère a répondu :
Je préfère comme toutes les femmes
Que l'on m'aime un temps bref mais avec folie.¹

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¹ Turina adds: "Je t'aimerai, déesse Vénus, je t'aimerai !"

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to French (Français) copyright © 2017 by Guy Laffaille, (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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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), "Las locas por amor"
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This text was added to the website: 2017-10-06
Line count: 5
Word count: 35