Nuit. Silence. Immobilité d'une branche et de ma pensée. Une rose, image de ta splendeur éphémère, vient de laisser tomber un de ses pétales. Où es-tu, en ce moment, toi qui m'as tendu la coupe et que j'appelle encore ? Sans doute, aucune rose ne s'effeuille près de celui que tu désaltères là-bas, et tu es privée du bonheur amer dont je sais t'enivrer.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 97, Paris, Éd. Piazza, first published 1924 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Nuit. Silence", 1924, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Robaiyat, no. 3, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carlos Tuxen-Bang (b. 1933), "Nuit. Silence. Immobilité d'une branche et de ma pensée", 1964 [ baritone and piano ], from Robaiyat d'Omar Khayyam, 15 quatrains traduits du persan par Frans Toussaint, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
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