by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Le Faune
Language: French (Français)
Un vieux faune de terre cuite Rit au centre des boulingrins, Présageant sans doute une suite Mauvaise à ces instants sereins Qui m'ont conduit et t'ont conduite, Mélancoliques pèlerins, Jusqu'à cette heure dont la fuite Tournoie au son des tambourins.
Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, page 31.
Note: The ampersand (&) as appears in the first publication is changed to "et".
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Le faune", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 14, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1869 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Marie Anderson , "Le faune", published 1960 [ three-part chorus or vocal sextet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Le faune", 2001 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Colas , "Le faune", published 1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Le Faune", L. 114/(104) no. 2 (1904), published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Fêtes Galantes II, no. 2, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Delapierre , "Le faune", [1948] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Camille Erlanger (1863 - 1919), "Le faune", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle; first published in Le Figaro, Supp. Litt., May 7 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Le faune", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Pastels, suite de mélodies sur des Fétes galantes , no. 4, Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Le faune", 1908, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Le Parc, no. 11, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Le faune", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adrien Remacle (1849 - 1916), "Le faune", published [1907] [ voice and piano ], from Les fêtes galantes. Esquisses mélodiques sur les poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 4, Paris, Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Le faune", KSS 65 no. 1 (1941), published 1988, first performed 2001 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes, no. 1, Bath, The Sorabji Archive; new edition [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) , "Der Faun" ; composed by Max Kowalski.
- Also set in Hungarian (Magyar), a translation by Lőrinc Szabó (1900 - 1957) ; composed by József Soproni.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Na sošku fauna v parku"
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The faun", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Nita Cox) , "The dancing faun"
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The faun", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The Faun", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Faun", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "A faun", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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