by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Language: French (Français)
Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part entre deux prés, que l’on dirait avec art de leur but détournés, chemins qui souvent n’ont devant eux rien d’autre en face que le pur espace et la saison.
Composition:
- Set to music by Stefano Gervasoni (b. 1962), no title, 1995, rev. 1996, first performed 1995 [ voice, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, and string quartet ], from Due poesie francesi di Rilke, no. 1, Ricordi
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 31
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- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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