Puisque tout passe | Puisque tout passe, faisons

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Puisque tout passe, faisons

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG ENG GER SPA

Puisque tout passe, faisons
la mélodie passagère ;
celle qui nous désaltère,
aura de nous raison.

Chantons ce qui nous quitte
avec amour et art ;
soyons plus vite
que le rapide départ.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written c1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 36, first published 1926 [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), "Puisque tout passe", op. 27 no. 1 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 1, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Georges Colin (1921 - 2002), "Puisque tout passe", op. 20 no. 2 (1948-52) [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq poèmes français de Rainer-Marie Rilke , no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Véronique Dubuis , "Puisque tout passe", published 2008 [ mixed chorus ], from Plumes Valaisannes, no. 8, Fédération des sociétés de chant du Valais ; St-Maurice : Éditions musicales Henry Labatiaz [sung text not yet checked]
by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Puisque tout passe", op. 21 no. 11 (1983) [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Puisque tout passe", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "Vergers XXXVI", 1983, from O Leben, Leben, wunderliche Zeit, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Giacomo Manzoni (b. 1932), "Puisque tout passe, faisons", 2006, copyright © 2006 [ chorus ], from Vergers, no. 3, Roma [etc.] : Rai Trade [sung text not yet checked]
by Siegfried Matthus (1934 - 2021), "Puisque tout passe", published 1999 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Philippe Mazé (b. 1954), "Puisque tout passe", published 1999 [ women's chorus ], from 6 Poèmes de Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 6, Artchipel [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Puisque tout passe", op. 61 (Sept mélodies) no. 4 (1972), published 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Ed. Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Puisque tout passe", 1950, copyright © 1980, first performed 1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Poèmes de R.M. Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Joop Voorn (1932 - 2021), "Puisque tout passe", 2011, published 2014, copyright © 2014 [ soprano and clarinet ], from Vues des anges, no. 5, Rijswijk, the Netherlands : : Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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