S'en est allée l'amante | S’en est allée l’amante

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

S’en est allée l’amante

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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S’en est allée l’amante
Au village voisin malgré la pluie
Sans son amant. 
S’en est allée l’amante,
Pour danser avec un autre que lui.
Les femmes mentent -- mentent.

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Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1899, appears in Le Guetteur mélancolique, in Stavelot, in 1. L'amour, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1952 [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 Luigi Cortese (1899 - 1976), "L'Amante", op. 36 no. 4 (1956), published 1959 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from 5 Poesie di Apollinaire da Le Guetteur Mélancolique, no. 4, Milan, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Benoît Menut (b. 1977), "S'en est allée l'amante", 2020, published 2020, first performed 2020 [ baritone and piano ], from Le Guetteur mélancolique pour baryton et piano, no. 4, Clichy, Éd. Musicales Artchipel [sung text not yet checked]
by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "S'en est allée l'amante", 1961, copyright © 1980, first performed 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de G. Apollinaire, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-04-24
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