Le clocher chante | Mieux qu'une tour profane

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Mieux qu'une tour profane

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG GER GER

Mieux qu'une tour profane,
je me chauffe pour mûrir mon carillon.
Qu'il soit doux, qu'il soit bon
aux Valaisannes.

Chaque dimanche, ton par ton,
je leur jette ma manne;
qu'il soit bon, mon carillon,
aux Valaisannes.

Qu'il soit doux, qu'il soit bon;
samedi soir dans les channes
tombe en gouttes mon carillon
aux Valaisans des Valaisannes.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 12 [author's text not yet checked 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 Michael Aschauer (b. 1977), "Le clocher chante", published 2011 [ mixed chorus ], Innsbruck : Helbling [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Le clocher chante", op. 27 no. 4 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 4, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Le clocher chante", op. 63 no. 1 (1972), from Six quatrains valaisans, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 56

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