by
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Among twenty snowy mountains
Language: English
Our translations: FRE GER
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975), "Among twenty snowy mountains", 1957 [ voice and string quartet ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lukas Foss (b. 1922), "Among twenty snowy mountains", 1978, copyright © 1980 [ soprano, piano, flute, 2 tapes, and percussion ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 1, New York, Pembroke [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "Among twenty snowy mountains", 1947, published 1951, from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louise Juliette Talma (1906 - 1996), "Among twenty snowy mountains", 1979 [ tenor or soprano, oboe, flute or violin, and piano ], from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 14
Parmi vingt montagnes neigeuses
Language: French (Français) after the English
Parmi vingt montagnes neigeuses,
La seule chose qui bougeait
Était l'œil du merle.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-06
Line count: 3
Word count: 13