by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
Voici mes plus beaux
Language: French (Français)
Voici mes plus beaux Mes plus beaux versets. Tremblants. Comme volent Les oiseaux blessés. Puissé-je parler sans cri Comme la flamme en sursaut Parle autant ! sans bruit Que le coq frémit. Puisque je semble si doux Au danger du berger fou. Le berger tremblant veut bien Me donner la main. Saute sa marelle un bel Oiseau : comme l'heure heureuse Qui se faufile au cartel L'heure au fébrile ramage Court silencieuse...
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrède, Paris, 1911, page 44.
Text Authorship:
- by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947), "L'enfant", written 1895, appears in Poèmes, in Tancrède, in 5. Lieds où l'on sourit pour ne pas pleurer, no. 6, first published 1911 [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 Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Enfance", 1940, published 1951 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de L. P. Fargue, no. 2, Paris, Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961), "L'enfant", op. 24 (1947), published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
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