by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Comment encore reconnaître
Language: French (Français)
Comment encore reconnaître ce que fut la douce vie ? En contemplant peut-être dans ma paume l'imagerie de ces lignes et de ces rides que l'on entretient en fermant sur le vide cette main de rien.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/1925, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 32 [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 Gordon Ware Binkerd (1916 - 2003), "Comment encore reconnaître", 1972, published 1973 [ mezzo-soprano, violin and violoncello ], from Portrait intérieur, no. 3, New York : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Goossens (b. 1976), "Comment encore reconnaître", 2020 [ mixed chorus ], from Cinq chansons d’espoir, no. 4, Euprint [sung text checked 1 time]
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