Anrufung der Parzen (Kottmann, set by (Gary Bachlund)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Invocation aux Parques

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

Je jure, tant que je vivrai,
De vous aimer, Sylvie. 
Parques, qui dans vos mains tenez 
Le fil de notre vie,
Allongez, tant que vous pourrez,
Le mien, je vous en prie.

Authorship

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 17^th cent. ) [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Invocation aux Parques", FP. 42, from Chansons gaillardes, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bertram Kottmann , "Anrufung der Parzen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission ENG ; composed by Gary Bachlund.

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

ENG English (Simon Chalifoux) , "Invocation of the fates", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Matthias Fletzberger

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 32

Anrufung der Parzen

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Solang ich leb, dies schwöre ich,
liebe ich dich, Sylvia;
Parze, die du in den Händen
unsern Lebensfaden hältst,
spinn, solang du dies vermagst,
meinen länger, bitt ich dich.

Parzen: 3 Schicksalsgöttinnen in der römischen Mythologie. Nona spinnt den Lebensfaden.

Authorship

by Bertram Kottmann , "Anrufung der Parzen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Anrufung der Parzen", 2015 [baritone and piano], from Frivole Lieder, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 29