J'ai vu ses yeux, et ma vie en est illuminée à jamais. J'ai entendu sa voix, et je ne peux plus écouter aucune musique. J'ai respiré son parfum, et je ne peux plus me pencher sur les roses.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des caresses, H. Piazza, Paris : 1921, p.98
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La Sultane de l'amour", written 1929?, appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 107, Paris, Éd. Piazza [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [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 Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "La sultane de l'amour", published 1924 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 3, Paris : Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Perez , "La Sultane de l'amour", published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Mélodies Arabes, no. 2, Éd. Rouart-Lerolle (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Thève , "La Sultane de l'amour", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], Paris (11 bis, boulevard Haussmann) : Ch. Hayet, éditeur [sung text not yet checked]
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