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.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "La Dormeuse", appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 56 [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 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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