Translation by Joseph Charles Mardrus (1868 - 1949)
Qu'il est exquis
Language: French (Français) after the Hebrew (עברית)
Qu’il est exquis, ton amour ... mon aimée, ma sœur
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Text Authorship:
- by Joseph Charles Mardrus (1868 - 1949), appears in Le Cantique des Cantiques, bréviaire de l'amour, Paris, Éd. Eugène Fasquelle, first published 1925
Based on:
- a text in Hebrew (עברית) by Bible or other Sacred Texts , appears in שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים (Shir Hashirim), no. 4
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marguerite Canal (1890 - 1978), "Qu'il est exquis" [ voice and piano ], from Trois chants extraits du Cantique des Cantiques, no. 2
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Gary Bachlund.
- Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, appears in Song of Songs of Solomon / Canticle of Canticles (KJV), no. 4 ; composed by Howard Skempton.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur.
- Also set in Latin, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , appears in Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (Song of Songs of Solomon), no. 4 ; composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
- Also set in Latin, [adaptation] ; composed by Maurice Duruflé.
- Also set in Latin, [adaptation] ; composed by Dorothée Hahne, Heinrich Isaac, John Plummer, Nikolaus Schapfl.
- Also set in Latin, [adaptation] ; composed by Anton Bruckner.
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