by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
Les trois sœurs aveugles
Language: French (Français)
Les trois sœurs aveugles (Espérons encore) Les trois sœurs aveugles Ont leurs lampes d'or; Montent à la tour, (Elles, vous et nous) Montent à la tour, Attendent sept jours... Ah ! dit la première, (Espérons encore) Ah ! dit la première, J'entends nos lumières... Ah ! dit la seconde, (Elles, vous et nous) Ah ! dit la seconde, C'est le roi qui monte... Non, dit la plus sainte, (Espérons encore) Non, dit la plus sainte, Elles se sont éteintes...
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Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), no title, written 1893, appears in Quinze Chansons, no. 5 [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), "Chanson", op. 12 no. 1 (1933), published 1962 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from Quatre poèmes de Maeterlinck, no. 1, Bruxelles, Éd. CéBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Les trois sœurs aveugles", op. 46 no. 5 (1905), from Pelléas ja Mélisande, no. 5, also set in Swedish (Svenska) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleslav Leopoldovitch Yavorsky (1877 - 1942), "Les trois sœurs aveugles (Pelléas et Mélisande)", op. 5 no. 3 (1905), published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons de Maeterlinck pour chant et piano, no. 3, Moscow, Éd. P. Jurgenson, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by John (or Jack) William Mackail (1859 - 1945) [an adaptation] ; composed by Gabriel Fauré.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Karatygin (1875 - 1925) ; composed by Boleslav Leopoldovitch Yavorsky.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Bertel Gripenberg (1878 - 1947) ; composed by Jean Sibelius.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov) , no title
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