by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Translation by Léon Guillot de Saix (1895 - 1964)
Experience is the name every one gives...
Language: English
Dumby Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
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Text Authorship:
- by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), no title, written 1893, appears in Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III, Scene 1, first published 1893 [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):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon Guillot de Saix (1895 - 1964) , no title ; composed by Denis Gougeon.
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This text was added to the website: 2021-09-24
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Word count: 11
L'Expérience, c'est le nom que chacun...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Dumby L'Expérience, c'est le nom que chacun donne à ses erreurs
About the headline (FAQ)
Text Authorship:
- by Léon Guillot de Saix (1895 - 1964), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), no title, written 1893, appears in Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III, Scene 1, first published 1893
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Denis Gougeon (b. 1951), "L'Expérience", 1992 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Jeu des citations, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-09-24
Line count: 2
Word count: 11