by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation © by Pierre Seghers (1906 - 1987)
Rubâ'iyât 5
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Oh ! plût à Dieu qu'il existât un lieu de repos !
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Text Authorship:
- by Pierre Seghers (1906 - 1987), appears in Omar Khayyâm : sa vie et ses quatrains Rubâ'iyât, Paris, Éd. Seghers, 'Miroir du monde', first published 1991, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [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 Lucien Guérinel (b. 1930), "Rubâ'iyât 5", published [1997], first performed 1998 [ soprano, oboe, English horn, bassoon ], from Sept Quatrains de Omar Khayyam pour soprano & trio d'anches, no. 5, Éd. Jobert
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