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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Vendanges
Language: French (Français) 
Les choses qui chantent dans la tête
Alors que la mémoire est absente,
Écoutez ! c'est notre sang qui chante...
Ô musique lointaine et discrète !

Écoutez ! c'est notre sang qui pleure
Alors que notre âme s'est enfuie,
D'une voix jusqu'alors inouïe
Et qui va se taire tout à l'heure.

Frère du sang de la vigne rose,
Frère du vin de la veine noire,
Ô vin, ô sang, c'est l'apothéose !

Chantez, pleurez ! Chassez la mémoire
Et chassez l'âme, et jusqu'aux ténèbres
Magnétisez nos pauvres vertèbres.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Vendanges", appears in Jadis et naguère, in Jadis, in Sonnets et autres vers, no. 19, first published 1884 [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 Willem Frederik Bon (1940 - 1983), "Vendanges", op. 32 no. 3, published 1970 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, violin, and piano ], from Jadis et naguère, no. 3, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Vendanges", 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Verlaine, no. 5, Petrograd / Moscow, Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by ? Karlsreuth ; composed by Rudolf Mengelberg.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-05
Line count: 14
Word count: 83

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