What Gallant Compares with Me? | What gallant compares with me

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by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Quel Galant m'est comparable

Language: French (Français) after the Greek (Ελληνικά)

Our translations: ENG GER HUN ITA SPA

Quel galant m'est comparable,
D'entre ceux qu'on voit passer?
Dis, dame Vassiliki?

Vois, pendus à ma ceinture,
pistolets et sabre aigu...
Et c'est toi que j'aime!

Text Authorship:

by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Quel Galant m'est comparable", M. A. 9 no. 3 (1904-6) [voice and piano], from Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "What Gallant Compares with Me?", copyright ©
GER German (Deutsch) (Maria Th. Langsch) , title 1: "Welcher Anbeter ist mit mir vergleichbar", 2004, copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , title 1: "¿Qué galán se puede comparar conmigo?", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Quale spasimante può starmi a pari", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Dániel Csűry) , title 1: "Melyik szerető fogható hozzám", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 26

What Gallant Compares with Me?

Language: English after the French (Français)

What gallant compares with me,
Among those one sees passing by?
Tell me, lady Vassiliki!

See, hanging on my belt,
My pistols and my curved sword.
And it is you whom I love!

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 33