La Carpe | Dans vos viviers, dans vos étangs

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

La Carpe

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER ITA

Dans vos viviers, dans vos étangs, 
Carpes, que vous vivez longtemps ! 
Est-ce que la mort vous oublie, 
Poissons de la mélancolie.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Carpe", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 23, first published 1911 [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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "La Carpe", op. 58 no. 3 (1944), published 1964 [ SATB quartet a cappella ], from Bestiaire. Cinq petites pièces pour quatuor vocal mixte sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 3, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "La Carpe", op. 1b no. 23 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 23, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by May Breguet (1916 - 2006), "La Carpe", 1992?, published 1992? [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 5, Bern (Switzerland), Éd. Verlag Müller & Schade AG [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La Carpe", op. 17a no. 23 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 23 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La Carpe", FP 15a no. 6 (1919), published 1920 [ medium voice and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 6, Éd. de La Sirène [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 21