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Quelle est l’ardeur qui se révèle Dans chaque âme Comme à vingt ans? Quelle est cette gaîté nouvelle? C’est le Printemps! Quels sont ces chants de tourterelle, De tendresse tout palpitants? Quel secret mystère l’appelle? Quelle est cette gaîté nouvelle? C’est le Printemps! Pourquoi dans l’air tant de caresse, Tant de joie et d’espoirs flottants? Pourquoi dans mon coeur cette ivresse? Quelle est cette gaîté nouvelle? C’est le Printemps!
Authorship
- by Édouard Guinand (1838 - 1909) [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 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Printemps", op. 113, published 1889, copyright © 1889 [ voice and piano ], Paris: A. Durand & Fils [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Spring", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-11-05
Line count: 15
Word count: 69
What is the warmth which reveals itself Within each soul As at twenty years old? What is this new gaiety? It is spring! What are these turtledove songs All fluttering with tenderness? What secret mystery calls? What is this new gaiety? It is spring! Why in the air so much caressing, So much joy and so many floating hopes? Why this exhilaration within my heart? What is this new gaiety? It is spring!
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2019 by Garrett Medlock, (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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- a text in French (Français) by Édouard Guinand (1838 - 1909)
This text was added to the website: 2019-11-05
Line count: 15
Word count: 73