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by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
Translation © by Peter Low
Dernier vœu
Language: French (Français)
Voilà longtemps que je vous aime : -- L'aveu remonte à dix-huit ans ! -- Vous êtes rose, je suis blême ; J'ai les hivers, vous les printemps. Des lilas blancs de cimetière Près de mes tempes ont fleuri ; J'aurai bientôt la touffe entière Pour ombrager mon front flétri. Mon soleil pâli qui décline Va disparaître à l'horizon, Et sur la funèbre colline Je vois ma dernière maison. Oh ! que de votre lèvre il tombe Sur ma lèvre un tardif baiser, Pour que je puisse dans ma tombe, Le cœur tranquille, reposer !
Authorship:
- by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Dernier vœu", written 1866?, appears in Émaux et Camées, Paris, Éd. Charpentier & Cie, first published 1872 [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 Péricles Aramis (1854 - 1932), "Dernier vœu", published 1903 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Auguin , "Dernier vœu", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Paris, A. Doret & A. Gruny [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francisco Chiaffitelli (1881 - 1954), "Dernier vœu" [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 1, Bruxelles: Maison Beethoven, G. Oertel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Auguste Charles Cœdès (1835 - 1884), "Dernier vœu", published 1875 [ soprano and piano ], from Soirées d'automne, no. 5, Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Delafosse (1874 - 1951), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour une ou deux voix et piano, no. 5, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "Dernier vœu", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Quelques émaux et camées, no. 6, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rolande Falcinelli (1920 - 2006), "Dernier vœu", op. 5 no. 1, published 1939 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edouard Flament (1880 - 1958), "Dernier vœu", op. 32 no. 4 (1918) [ baritone or bass and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 4, Paris, La Parisienne G. Lorette [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luis de Freitas Branco (1890 - 1955), "Dernier vœu", 1909, published 1997 [ medium voice and piano ], from Canções Francesas, no. 1, Lisboa, Éd. Musicoteca [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Dernier vœu", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, deuxième recueil, no. 7, Éd. Société Musicale G. Astruc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Marie Hamonic (1898 - 1966), "Dernier vœu" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Mélodies pour piano et chant, no. 2, Paris, Éd. A. Joanin & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émilienne Machabey-Ganeval (b. 1896), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Eugène Marty (1860 - 1908), "Dernier vœu", published 1889 [ medium voice and piano ], from 4 Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Bruneau [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emmanuel Ritz (d. 1958), "Dernier vœu", published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882 - 1955), "Dernier vœu", published 1920, copyright © 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 6, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Dernier vœu", 1880, published 1880 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Six mélodies et une Havanaise variée à 2 voix, no. 2, Paris, Éd "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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- FRE French (Français) (Peter Low) , "Final Wish", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2013-04-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 93
Final Wish
Language: French (Français) after the French (Français)
For a long time now I have loved you: (the avowal goes back eighteen years!). You are pink, I am pallid; I have the winters, you the springs. The white lilacs of the graveyard have blossomed above my temples; soon I'll have the entire clump to shade my withered brow. My faded sun now sinking will vanish over the horizon, and on the hillside cemetery I see my final home. Oh that from your lips there might fall onto mine a belated kiss, so that in my grave I might rest with a tranquil heart!
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to French (Français) copyright © 2022 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Dernier vœu", written 1866?, appears in Émaux et Camées, Paris, Éd. Charpentier & Cie, first published 1872
This text was added to the website: 2022-04-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 95