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À toute âme qui pleure, à tout péché qui passe, J'ouvre au sein des étoiles mes mains pleines de grâces. Il n'est péché qui vive quand l'amour a parlé; Il n'est d'âme qui meure quand l'amour a pleuré... Et si l'amour s'égare aux sentiers d'ici-bas, Ses larmes me retrouvent et ne [se perdent]1 pas...
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View original text (without footnotes)First published in German in Sœur Béatrice, Mystère en Trois Actes, in the revue Die Insel, 1900; then in French in Théâtre, Book III, 1901; later in Quinze Chansons, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, 1900.
1 López Buchardo, Palma: "s'égarent"
Authorship
- by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Cantique de la Vierge dans » Sœur Béatrice «", written 1896-1900, appears in Quinze Chansons, no. 15, first published 1904 [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-Robert Blanc (b. 1907), "Cantique à la Vierge", published 1935 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979), "Cantique", subtitle: "Très modéré", 1909, published 1909 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustavo Emilio Campa (1863 - 1934), "À toute âme qui pleure" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellen Kullmann , "Cantique de la Vierge dans Sœur Béatrice", <<1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, poésies de Maeterlinck, no. 2, Éd. F. Durdilly [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlos López Buchardo (1881 - 1948), "A toute âme qui pleure... (Cántico a la Virgen)", 1918, first performed 1924 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Guy Morançon (b. 1927), "À toute âme qui pleure", 1946 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Athos Palma (1891 - 1951), "Cantique de la Vierge" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Boleslav Leopoldovitch Yavorsky (1877 - 1942), "Cantique de Sœur Béatrice", op. 5 no. 1 (1905), published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de Maeterlinck pour chant et piano, no. 1, Moscow, Éd. P. Jurgenson, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1873 - 1936) , Jena, E. Diederichs, first published 1906 ; composed by Alexander Zemlinsky.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Karatygin (1875 - 1925) ; composed by Boleslav Leopoldovitch Yavorsky.
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- ENG English (David Fetter) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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To every soul that weeps To every sin inflicted I extend in the stars My hands full of grace. No one lives who has not sinned When love spoke No one with a soul has not died When love wept. And if love strays On the paths here below Its tears find me And do not stray.
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Cantique de la Vierge dans » Sœur Béatrice «", written 1896-1900, appears in Quinze Chansons, no. 15, first published 1904
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-04
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Word count: 57