by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253)
Las ! si j'avois pouvoir d'oublier
Language: French (Français)
Las ! si j'avois pouvoir d'oublier Sa beauté, sa beauté, son bien dire, Et son très-doux, très-doux regarder, Finirois mon martyre : Mais las ! mon cœur je n'en puis ôter, Et grand affolage M'est d'espérer : Mais tel fervage Donne courage A tout endurer. Et puis, comment, comment oublier Sa beauté, sa beauté, son bien dire, Et son très-doux, très-doux regarder ? Mieux aime mon martyre.
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Confirmed with Annales poétiques, ou Almanach des Muses, depuis l'origine de la Poésie Françoise, tome premier, Paris, Delalain, 1778, page 9. A footnote in this edition is attached to the end of line 6 as follows: Grand affolage, grande folie.
Text Authorship:
- by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253), "Chanson" [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 (Charles Gustave) Alban Cocural Dorcy (1856 - 1931), "Chanson de Thibault Comte de Champagne et Roi de Navarre", published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 13, Éd. V. Durdilly & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Moullé (1845 - 1923), "Chanson de Thibault", published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons tendres du XIIème au XVIIIème siècle, remises au jour et harmonisées par E. Moullé, no. 24, Paris, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Napoléon-Henri Reber.
- Also set in French (Français), adapted by François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770) [an adaptation] ; composed by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Ein Sonnet", subtitle: "Aus dem 13ten Jahrhundert" ; composed by Johannes Brahms, Johann Peter Cornelius D'Alquen, Albert Fuchs, Moritz Hauptmann, Fanny Hensel, Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, Mathilde von Kralik, Oskar Raif, Benedikt Randhartinger, Karl Friedrich Zelter.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-07-10
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Word count: 62