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by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867)
Translation by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884) and by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879)

L'ombre et le jour
Language: French (Français) 
Vois-tu la nuit qui se retire,
Vois-tu l'Orient qui se teint ?
  Pleurs et sourire,
    C'est le matin.

C'est d'un coté la brume épaisse,
De l'autre une blanche lueur ;
  C'est la tristesse
    Près du bonheur.

De notre union douce et sombre
Voilà l'image, ô mon amour !
  Moi je suis l'ombre,
    Et toi le jour.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "L'ombre et le jour" [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 Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "L'ombre et le jour", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884) , "Licht und Schatten" and by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879) , "Licht und Schatten" ; composed by Ludwig Keller.
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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2006-12-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 53

Licht und Schatten
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Sieh, wie von Osten ein rosig Verklären
dringt [in]1 das Dunkel, das über uns lag!
Lächeln und Zähren,
das ist der Tag!

Drüben der Schimmer der steigenden Sonne,
hier noch die Dämm'rung im neb'ligen Kleid;
das ist die Wonne
neben dem Leid!

Gleichwie der Tag und die Nacht dort sich gatten,
schließt sich der Bund, der uns beide umflicht;
ich bin der Schatten,
du bist das Licht!

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•   L. Keller 

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Confirmed with Fünf Bücher französischer Lyrik vom Zeitalter der Revolution bis auf unsere Tage, Stuttgart, 1862.

1 Keller: "durch"

Text Authorship:

  • by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), "Licht und Schatten" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
  • by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879), "Licht und Schatten" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "L'ombre et le jour"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ludwig Keller (1847 - 1930), "Licht und Schatten" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2023-05-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 67

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