by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)
La digitale
Language: French (Français)
Fleur cordiale, ta robe rose N'a pas son calice formé Que déjà moins encore éclose L'enfant se meurt d'avoir aimé.
Text Authorship:
- by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "La digitale", written 1923-5, appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 1. Premier Livre, no. 30 [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):
- by Jean Apothéloz (1900 - 1965), "La digitale", 1943 [ medium voice and piano ], from Au Jardin de Francis Jammes, no. 6, MS [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Papineau-Couture (1916 - 2000), "La digitale", 1947, copyright © 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains, no. 2, Montréal, Éd. Doberman-Yppan [sung text checked 1 time]
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