by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Les Cloches
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Mon beau tzigane mon amant Écoute les cloches qui sonnent Nous nous aimions éperdûment Croyant n'être vus de personne Mais nous étions bien mal cachés Toutes les cloches à la ronde Nous ont vu du haut des clochers Et le disent à tout le monde Demain Cyprien et Henri Marie Ursule et Catherine La boulangère et son mari Et puis Gertrude ma cousine Souriront quand je passerai Je ne saurai plus où me mettre Tu seras loin Je pleurerai J'en mourrai peut-être
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Les Cloches", written 1902, appears in Alcools, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913 [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 Apothéloz (1900 - 1965), "Les Cloches", 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons sur des textes de Guillaume Apollinaire pour chant et piano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Les Cloches", 1947 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Les Cloches", H. 12 no. 6 (1917), published 1921 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Six Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 6, Albert Zunz Mathot [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexandre Kraskiewicz , "Les Cloches" [ medium voice and piano ], Béziers, Éd. Société de Musicologie du Languedoc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "Les Cloches", <<1978 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Les Cloches", 1925-1926, published 1929 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Huit poèmes, no. 8, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucie Vellère (1896 - 1966), "Les cloches", copyright © 1972 [ voice and piano ], Brussels : CeBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Bells", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 82