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Confirmed with Parnasse de la jeune Belgique, sous la direction littéraire de MM. Iwan Gilkin, Albert Giraud et Max Waller, Paris: Léon Vanier, 1887, page 223.

Text Authorship:

• by Léon Montenaeken (1859 - 1950), "Peu de chose", first published 1887 [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 Emile Desportes (d. 1944), "La Vie est vaine", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Napoleon Lambelet (1864 - 1932), "La Vie", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], London, Francis, Day & Hunter [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pietro Lanciani (1857 - 1912), "Peu de chose", <<1890 [ voice and piano ], Paris, P. Schott & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "La Vie", published 1894 [ voice and piano ], G. Schirmer, jr (The Boston Music Company) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Reid-Taylor , "La Vie est vaine", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "La Vie est vaine", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], London, Chappell & Co Ltd [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Edward Frederick Lockton (1876 - 1940) ; composed by Ellen Riley, as Ellen Wright.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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