La Nuit, sur le grand mystère
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: CAT CHI ENG
La Nuit, [sur le grand]1 mystère,
Entr'ouvre ses écrins bleus :
Autant de fleurs sur la terre,
Que d'étoiles dans les cieux !
On voit ses ombres dormantes
S'éclairer, à tous moments,
Autant par les fleurs charmantes
Que par les astres charmants.
Moi, ma Nuit au sombre voile
N'a, pour charme et pour clarté,
Qu'une fleur et qu'une étoile :
Mon amour et ta beauté !
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Confirmed with Anthologie des poètes français du XIXème siècle, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 453.
1 Gouzien: "au brillant"; further changes may exist not shown above.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Léon Boëllmann (1862 - 1897), "La nuit ", op. 26 no. 2 (1896), published 1896 [ high voice and piano ], from Conte d’Amour, no. 2, Édition Baudoux [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Nocturne", op. 43 no. 2 (1886), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Éditions Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georges Flé , "Éblouissement", published 1898 [ high voice and piano ], from Poésies mises en musique, no. 8, Édition du Mercure de France [sung text not yet checked]
- by Armand Gouzien (1839 - 1892), "La nuit" [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Ryelandt (1870 - 1965), "Éblouissement", op. 19 (Six mélodies) no. 4 (1897), published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], Liège, Éd. Veuve Leopold Muraille [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , 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.
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Word count: 63
La nit, en el gran misteri
Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)
La nit, en el gran misteri,
entreobre els seus escrinys blaus:
tantes flors a la terra
com estrelles al cel!
Hom veu les seves ombres dorments
il·luminar-se a tots moments,
tant per les flors encisadores
com per els astres encisants.
Per a mi, la meva nit amb vel ombrívol
no té, com encís i com claror
res més que una flor i que una estrella:
el meu amor i la teva beutat!
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Translations of title(s):
"Éblouissement" = "Enlluernament"
"La nuit" = "La nit"
"Nocturne" = "Nocturn"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2023 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Word count: 72
