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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Translation by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis

La musique
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ITA
La musique [parfois]1 me prend comme une mer !
	Vers ma pâle étoile,
Sous un plafond de brume ou dans un [pur]2 éther,
	Je mets à la voile ;

La poitrine en avant et [gonflant mes poumons
	De toile pesante,
Je monte et je descends sur le dos des grands monts
	D'eau retentissante ;]3

Je sens vibrer en moi toutes les passions
	D'un vaisseau qui souffre
Le bon vent, la tempête et ses convulsions

	Sur l'immense gouffre
Me [bercent, et parfois le calme, -- grand]4 miroir
	De mon désespoir !

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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 174-175. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 158-159. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in Spleen et Idéal, page 192. Punctuation follows 1857 edition. Note: this was number 76 in the 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 69 or 71 in subsequent editions.

1 1857 edition, 1861 edition, E. Carter, and G. Charpentier: "souvent"
2 1857 edition, 1861 edition, E. Carter, and G. Charpentier: "vaste"
3 1857 edition, 1861 edition, E. Carter, and G. Charpentier: "les poumons gonflés / Comme de la toile, / J'escalade le dos des flots amoncelés / Que la nuit me voile ;"
4 1857 edition, 1861 edition, E. Carter, and G. Charpentier: "bercent. D'autres fois, calme plat, grand"

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Musique", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 69, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Hudba"
  • ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Music", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "La musica", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 90

Музыка
 (Sung text for setting by S. Taneyev)
 Matches base text
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Порою музыка мой дух влечёт, как море;
К тебе, к тебе, звезда моя,
В тумане сумрачном, в эфирных волн просторе
В тот час стремлюся я...

И вот крепчает грудь при яростном напоре...
И, парус распустя,
По бешеным хребтам чернеющего моря
Несется вверх ладья.

И снова грудь моя полна безумной страстью,
И снова я лечу над гибельною пастью,
Но вдруг затихнет всё, и в глубине пучин,

Сквозь блеск воды зеркальной, 
я созерцаю вновь,
Безмолвный и печальный, отчаянье своё.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Музыка", op. 26 no. 5 (1908), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Стихотворений из сборника Эллисъ «Иммортели» (10 Stikhotvorenij iz sbornika Ellis 'Immorteli') = 10 Poems from Ellis's Immortelles, no. 5, Berlin : Russischer Musikverlag

Text Authorship:

  • by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis, no title

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Musique", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 69, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 77

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