Plus rouge que la fleur de l'ohkouan le soleil descendait derrière la campagne. C'était l'heure convenue. J'avais entravé mon cheval. Je m'étais assis. Tu es arrivée, Fatima ! Et j'ai frissonné, comme le dormeur qui est surpris par l'aurore.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris : H. Piazza, 1919, p. 70, with the title "L'Attente". Earlier title: "Ebn Zeïdoun".
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 70, appears in Kacidas Mauresques du Xe siècle [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Attente", op. 84 no. 1 (c1941) [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes Arabes, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ruy Coelho (1889 - 1986), "Ebn Zeïdoun", published [1931], from 6 Kacides mauresques, no. 4, Lisboa : Oliveira [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Cozanet (1870 - 1938), as Jean d'Udine, "L'Attente", published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept poèmes arabes extraits du Jardin des Caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 4, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel; note: the text begins 'C'était l'heure convenue' [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "L'Attente", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sylvain Vouillement (1910 - 1995), "L'Attente" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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