by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
La Dormeuse
Language: French (Français)
Figure de femme, sur son sommeil fermée, on dirait qu'elle goûte quelque bruit à nul autre pareil qui la remplit toute. De son corps sonore qui dort elle tire la jouissance d'être un murmure encor sous le regard du silence.
Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Page 204.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "La Dormeuse", appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 56 [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 Raffaele d'Alessandro (1911 - 1959), "La Dormeuse", op. 14 (Deux mélodies) (1936) [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Narcís Bonet (b. 1933), "La Dormeuse", 1989 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois Mélodies (Rainer Maria Rilke), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Goossens (b. 1976), "La dormeuse", 2020 [ mixed chorus ], from Cinq chansons d’espoir, no. 3, Euprint [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "La Dormeuse", op. 21 no. 12 (1983) [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "La Dormeuse", op. 65 (Neuf mélodies) no. 6 (1973) [sung text checked 1 time]
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