La Tortue
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Du Thrace magique, ô délire!
Mes doigts sûrs font sonner la lyre.
Les animaux passent aux sons
De ma tortue, de mes chansons.
First published in the revue La Phalange, no. 24, June 15, 1908, in La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain, no. 2 of 18.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "La Tortue", op. 1b no. 2 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 2, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by May Breguet (1916 - 2006), "La Tortue", 1992?, published 1992? [ high voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 2, Bern (Switzerland), Éd. Verlag Müller & Schade AG [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "La Tortue", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "La Tortue", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 1, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "La Tortue", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "La Tortue", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La Tortue", op. 17a no. 2 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Turtle", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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The Turtle
Language: English  after the French (Français)
My sure fingers pluck the strings
of the lyre of magical Thrace (how exciting!).
The animals pass accompanied by
the sounds of my turtle, of my songs.
Authorship:
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