by Antoine Vincent Arnault (1766 - 1834)
La feuille
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
De ta tige détachée, Pauvre feuille desséchée, Où vas-tu ? - Je n'en sais rien. L'orage a brisé le chêne Qui seul était mon soutien. De son inconstante haleine Le zéphyr ou l'aquilon Depuis ce jour me promène De la forêt à la plaine, De la montagne au vallon. Je vais où le vent me mène, Sans me plaindre ou m'effrayer : Je vais où va toute chose, Où va la feuille de rose Et la feuille de laurier.
Text Authorship:
- by Antoine Vincent Arnault (1766 - 1834), "La feuille", appears in Œuvres de A.V. Arnault, in Fables et poésies diverses, no. 16, first published 1825 [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 François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin (1816 - 1878), "La feuille", published 1878-1879 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal de Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amédée Dutacq (1848 - 1929), "La feuille" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Trémois (1891 - 1974), "La feuille", published 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Glauco Velasquez (1883 - 1914), "La feuille", 1905, first performed 1911 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "La feuille", subtitle: "Valse facile", published [1872] [ voice and piano ], from Valses chantées, no. 3, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Karl Engelhardt (1788 - 1835) , "Das Laubblatt" [an adaptation] ; composed by Georg Gerson.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anyi Sharma) , "The Leaf", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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