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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

La mort des artistes
 (Sung text for setting by G. Bachlund)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Combien faut-il de fois secouer mes grelots
Et baiser ton front bas, morne caricature ?
Pour piquer dans le but, de mystique nature,
Combien, ô mon carquois, perdre de javelots ? 

Nous userons notre âme en de subtils complots,
Et nous démolirons mainte lourde armature,
Avant de contempler la grande Créature
Dont l'infernal désir nous remplit de sanglots ! 

Il en est qui jamais n'ont connu leur Idole,
Et ces sculpteurs damnés et marqués d'un affront,
Qui vont se martelant la poitrine et le front,

N'ont qu'un espoir, étrange et sombre Capitole !
C'est que la Mort, planant comme un soleil nouveau,
Fera s'épanouir les fleurs de leur cerveau !

Composition:

    Set to music by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "La mort des artistes", 1990 [ medium voice and piano ], from La Mort, no. 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La mort des artistes", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, no. 123, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857

See other settings of this text.

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Haasz) , "Smrt umělců"
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "The Death of Artists", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , "Der Tod der Künstler", appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Der Tod, Berlin, Bondi, first published 1901


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 106

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