by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Un cygne avance sur l'eau
Language: French (Français)
Un cygne avance sur l'eau tout entouré de lui-même, comme un glissant tableau; ainsi à certains instants un être que l'on aime est tout un espace mouvant. Il se rapproche, doublé, comme ce cygne qui nage, sur notre âme troublée... qui à cet être ajoute la tremblante image de bonheur et de doute.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 40 [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Un cygne", op. 27 no. 2 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 2, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Un cygne", op. 42 no. 5 (1932), published 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 5, Éd. Le Chant du Monde [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Manuel Pedro Ferreira (b. 1959), "Un cygne avance sur l'eau", 1989, first performed 1990 [ soprano and piano ], from Três Canções de Rilke, no. 3, can be found on the CD Vocalizos (Movieplay, 1997) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Un cygne", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Un cygne avance sur l'eau", op. 61 (Sept mélodies) no. 1 (1972), published 1972 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Ed. Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cyril Plante (b. 1975), "Un cygne avance sur l'eau", op. 107 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cyril Plante (b. 1975), "Un cygne avance sur l'eau", op. 13 (4 Mélodies d'après R.M. Rilke) no. 2 (1997) [ baritone and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gérard Zinsstag (b. 1941), "Un cygne", 2015 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello ], from Rilke-lieder, no. 2, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "A swan moves across the water", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "A swan", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 53