by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)
Translation © by Pierre Jean Jouve (1887 - 1976)
La vie gaie
Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)
Quand je viens sur la prairie,/ Quand je vais à travers champs
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Text Authorship:
- by Pierre Jean Jouve (1887 - 1976), "La vie gaie", appears in Poèmes de la folie d'Hölderlin, in Poésie des derniers temps, Paris, Éd. Fourcade, first published 1929-30, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Das fröhliche Leben"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "La vie gaie", 1933, first performed 1933 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Hölderlin, no. 3
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