by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Tout se passe à peu près comme
Language: French (Français)
Tout se passe à peu près comme si l'on reprochait à la pomme d'être bonne à manger. Mais il reste d'autres dangers. Celui de la laisser sur l'arbre, celui de la sculpter en marbre, et le dernier, le pire : de lui en vouloir d'être en cire.
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Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 11.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 5 [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 Jean Philippe Dartois , "La pomme", 2017 [ voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Manuel Pedro Ferreira (b. 1959), "Tout se passe à peu près", 1989, first performed 1990 [ soprano and piano ], from Três Canções de Rilke, no. 2, can be found on the CD Vocalizos (Movieplay, 1997) [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-27
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