D'un rayon de lune fantasque Luisent les flacons de cristal Sur le lavabo de santal Du pâle dandy bergamasque. La fontaine rit dans sa vasque Avec un son clair de métal. D'un rayon de Lune fantasque Luisent les flacons de cristal. Mais le seigneur à blanche basque, Laissant le rouge végétal Et le fard vert oriental Maquille étrangement son masque D'un rayon de Lune fantasque.
Text Authorship:
- by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Pierrot Dandy", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) , "Pierrot Dandy" ; composed by Joseph Marx.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Der Dandy", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.
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Im phantast'schen Mondenstrahle Funkeln Fläschchen und Krystalle. Vor dem Waschtisch schmückt der fahle Dandy Pierrot sich zum Balle. Wasserstrahl in seiner Schale Klirrt gleich singendem Metalle. Im phantast'schen Mondenstrahle Funkeln Fläschchen und Krystalle. Pierrot, statt daß auf die schmale Bleiche Lippe er das dralle Rot des frischen Lebens male, Schminkt sich, daß er Ihr gefalle, Mit phantast'schem Mondenstrahle.
Confirmed with Felix Hausdorff, Gesammelte Werke, Band VIII Literarisches Werk, ed. by Friedrich Vollhardt and Udo Roth, Springer, Berlin, 2011, page 134, and respectively, Paul Mongré, Ekstasen, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, Leipzig, 1900, page 131.
Text Authorship:
- by Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942), as Paul Mongré, "Pierrot Dandy" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Pierrot Dandy", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Pierrot Dandy", 1909, published 1910 [high voice and piano], in Lieder und Gesänge, I. Folge, Nr.20 [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Pierrot", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-11
Line count: 13
Word count: 61