by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
La barque est petite et la mer immense
Language: French (Français)
La barque est petite et la mer immense, La vague nous jette au ciel en courroux, Le ciel nous renvoie au flot en démence: Près du mât rompu prions à genoux! De nous à la tombe il n'est qu'une planche: Peut-être ce soir, dans un lit amer, Sous un froid linceul, fait d'écume blanche, Irons-nous dormir, veillés par l'éclair! Fleur du paradis, sainte Notre-Dame, Si bonne aux marins en péril de mort, Apaise le vent, fais [taire]1 la lame, Et pousse du doigt notre esquif au port. Nous te donnerons, si tu nous délivres, Une belle robe en papier d'argent, Un cierge à festons pesant quatre livres, Et, pour ton Jésus, un petit Saint-Jean.
F. Schmitt sets stanzas 1-3
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)First published April 1844 in the revue L'Artiste
1 Fournier: "tomber"Authorship:
- by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), title 1: "La tempête", title 2: "Pendant la tempête", written 1840, appears in España, first published 1845 [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), "Pendant l'orage", subtitle: "Marine" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolphe N. Bérard (1870 - 1946), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ soprano, four-part mixed chorus, and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Bodé (d. 1945), "Pendant la tempête", copyright © 1916 [ voice, piano, and violin or cello or flute ad libitum ], from 5 Chants avec accompagnement de piano (violon ou violoncelle ad libitum), no. 4, Éd. Bourlant-Ladam [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Pendant la tempête", 1912, published 2000 [ three-part men's chorus ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840 - 1910), "Pendant la tempête", published [1880] [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by G. Bourgoin , "Ex-Voto", published 1917 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Gregh [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard-Louis Crocé-Spinelli (1871 - 1932), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Decazes, Vicomte (1851 - 1913), as Raymond Sézac, "Fleur du paradis" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971), "Pendant la tempête", 1912 [ four-part mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Camille Fournier (d. 1944), "Prière de matelots", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons de jeunesse, no. 7, Paris, Éd. F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gustave Galand (1872 - 1898), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ four-part men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste Ganaye (1870 - 1946), "Pendant la tempête", published 1910 [ four-part men's chorus ], Paris, Andrieu [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ four-part mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Imbert (1866 - 1900), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ four-part men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles d'Ivry (1867 - 1945), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Georges Kastner (1810 - 1867), "Pendant la tempête", published 1854 [ six-part men's chorus and piano ad libitum ], from Les chants de la vie, no. 20, Paris, Brandus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869 - 1948), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ four-part mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond Paul Henri Malherbe (1870 - 1963), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ four-part men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antoine-Louis Malliot (d. 1867), "Pendant l'orage" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules-Ernest Georges Mouquet (1867 - 1946), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max d'Ollone (1875 - 1959), "Pendant la tempête", <<1896 [ tenor and men's chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Prière du marin", 1908 [ tenor, three-part women's chorus, violoncello, 2 violins, and piano or organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste de Rongé (1825 - 1882), "Prière pendant la tempête" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Par la tempête", op. 40 no. 2 (1896), published 1919, rev. 1913, stanzas 1-3 [ SATB chorus and orchestra ], from Trois choeurs a cappella, no. 2, Paris: Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "V bouři"
- ENG English (Gregory Ristow) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- POL Polish (Polski) (Bronisława Ostrowska) , "W Burzy. Modlitwa", Kraków, first published 1911
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-06
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Word count: 114