Clair de lune | Sur un jardin fardé de lune, l'ombre noire d'un olivier s'arrondit

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Clair de lune

Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)

Our translations: ENG

Sur un jardin fardé de lune, l'ombre noire d'un olivier s'arrondit. 
Sur la joue pâle d'une jeune fille, un amant a posé sa bouche. 
L'ombre de l'olivier tourne sur le jardin. 
La bouche de l'amant parcourt le visage de la jeune fille.

Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris: L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1921, p.56

Text Authorship:

by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Clair de lune", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 54, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Marcel Bernheim (1892 - 1963), "Clair de lune", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes Arabes extraits du “Jardin des Caresses” de Franz Toussaint, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Clair de lune", op. 67 no. 5 (1931) [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "Clair de lune", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jacqueline Despas (1893 - 1968), "Clair de lune", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
by Roger Vuataz (1898 - 1988), "Clair de lune", op. 17 no. 9, published 1930 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

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