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by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970)

On est ce qu'on sera
Language: French (Français)  after the Persian (Farsi) 
Et si le vin qu'on boit, si l'amour même
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970), appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie

Based on:

  • a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by René Lenormand (1846 - 1932), "On est ce qu'on sera", op. 117 no. 2, published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quinze Rubayat de Omar Khayyam, no. 2, Paris, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 42, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 42, first published 1872 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935) , no title, appears in Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam, no. 44 ; composed by Boris Blacher.
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