by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Vous qui pleurez, venez à ce Dieu, car...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Vous qui pleurez, venez à ce Dieu, car il pleure. Vous qui souffrez, venez à lui, car il guérit. Vous qui tremblez, venez à lui, car il sourit. Vous qui passez, venez à lui, car il demeure.
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Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Écrit au bas d'un crucifix", written 1842, appears in Les Contemplations, in 3. Livre troisième -- Les luttes et les rêves, no. 4 [author's text not yet checked 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Venez à lui", 2008 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by João Guilherme Bell Daddi (1813 - 1887), "Venez à lui", subtitle: "Chant religieux pour voix de basse", published 1880? [ low voice and piano ], Madrid, Éd. A. Romero [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "Le crucifix" [ voice and piano or organ ], from Deuxième recueil de vingt mélodies, chant et piano, par J. Faure, no. 18, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel', Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles-Léon Hess (1844 - 1926), "Vous qui pleurez", published 1878-1879 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique, no. 77 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Au pied d'un crucifix", published [1870] [ medium voice, violin or cello, piano, organ ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Le Crucifix", subtitle: "En trois variations", 1884 [ low voice and piano or organ or harmonium ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond Savary , "Chant du calvaire", published [1868] [ mezzo-soprano and organ or harmonium ], from 18 Lieder, poésies de Victor Hugo, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "Come to him", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-17
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