by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Depuis quand nous te jouons
Language: French (Français)
Depuis quand nous te jouons avec nos [yeux]1, fenêtre ! Comme la lyre, tu devais être rendue aux constellations ! Instrument tendre et fort de nos âmes successives, arrache enfin de nos sorts ta forme définitive ! Monte ! Tourne de loin autour de nous qui te fîmes. Soyez, astres, les rimes trouvées a nos bouts de destin !
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Page 42.
Note: Clearfield's score has the following typo: in stanza 3, line 3, word 1 is "Soyex". It is possible that the change in stanza 1, line 2, word 3 - from "yeux" to "jeux" - is also a typo.
1 Clearfield: "jeux"Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title [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 Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960), "Comme la lyre", first performed 2011 [ soprano, mezzo-soprano, SATB chorus, chamber orchestra ], from Les fenêtres, no. 4, Self-published, Angelfire Press [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-11-12
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Word count: 56