by Paul Jean Toulet (1867 - 1920)
Les trois dames d'Albi
Language: French (Français)
Filippa, Faïs, Esclarmonde,
Les plus rares, que l'on put voir,
Beautés du monde ;
Mais toi si pâle encor d'avoir
Couru la lune l'autre soir
Aux quatrerues,
Ecoute : au bruit noir des chansons
Satan flagelle tes sœurs nues ;
Viens, et dansons.
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Confirmed with Robert de La Vaissière, Anthologie poétique du XXe siècle, tome second, Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie , 1923, Pages 177-178.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Jean Toulet (1867 - 1920), "Les trois dames d'Albi", written 1913, appears in Les Contrerimes, in Chansons, in 1. Romances sans musique, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Le Divan, first published 1921 [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 Maurice Jaubert (1900 - 1940), "Les Trois Dames d'Albi", 1923-1924, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatre Romances, no. 2, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig-Wolfgang Simoni , "Les trois dames d'Albi", 1944 [ mezzo-soprano and strings ], from Quatre Contrerimes de P.J. Toulet, no. 2, Éd. du Chant du Monde [sung text not yet checked]
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