Avant d'entrer dans ma céllule Il a fallu me mettre nu Et quelle voix sinistre ulule Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit Adieu adieu chantante ronde O mes années ô jeunes filles
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Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1911, appears in Alcools, in À la Santé, no. 1, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "À la Santé n°1", 1939 [ voice and piano ], from À la Santé, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule", 1961, first performed 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from À la Santé, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "À la Santé", op. 135 no. 7, from Symphony no. 14, no. 7, title in English: "In the Santé jail", also set in Russian (Русский)
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov) , copyright ©
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 42
Меня раздели догола [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1911, appears in Alcools, in À la Santé, no. 1, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "В тюрьме Сантэ", op. 135 no. 7, from Symphony no. 14, no. 7, also set in French (Français)
This text was added to the website: 2009-07-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 31