by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Translation © possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Le Départ
Language: French (Français)
Et leurs visages étaient pâles Et leurs sanglots s’étaient brisés Comme la neige aux purs pétales Ou bien tes mains sur mes baisers Tombaient les feuilles automnales
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Départ", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 6. La tête étoilée, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [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 Rafał Augustyn (b. 1951), "Le Départ", 1991, published 1997 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq calligrammes d'Apollinaire pour soprano et piano, no. 5, Poznan, Brevis [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Départ", 1939 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Le Départ", 1925-1926, published 1929 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Huit poèmes, no. 5, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Le Départ", 1961, copyright © 1980, first performed 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de G. Apollinaire, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989); composed by Earl Kim.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-24
Line count: 5
Word count: 27
The Departure
Language: English after the French (Français)
And their faces grew pale [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Départ", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 6. La tête étoilée, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Earl Kim (1920 - 1998), "The Departure", 1982 [ voice, harp, strings ], from Where Grief Slumbers, no. 6, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2019-12-08
Line count: 5
Word count: 25