Mutation | Une femme qui pleurait

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

Mutation

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER GER

Une femme qui pleurait
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des soldats qui passaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Un éclusier qui pêchait
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Les tranchées qui blanchissaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des obus qui pétaient
  Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des allumettes qui ne prenaient pas
  Et tout
    A tant changé
      En moi
    Tout
      Sauf mon Amour
        Eh ! Oh ! Ha !

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Mutation", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 3. Case d'Armons, 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), "Mutation", 1991, published 1997 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq calligrammes d'Apollinaire pour soprano et piano, no. 2, Poznan, Brevis [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Mutation", op. 71 no. 3 (1939), published 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Apollinaire, no. 3, Éd. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Mutation", FP 140 no. 2 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 2, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Zuidam (b. 1964), "Mutation", published 2001 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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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: 17
Word count: 55