by
Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
L'astronome
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Brahim, l’astronome, est fort savant.
Il sait vers quel point du ciel une comète se dirige,
mais il ignore où sa femme retrouve, chaque soir,
son amant.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris: L'édition D'art H. Piazza, 1921, p. 94
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "L'Astronome", published 1924 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lionel Noël Ferdinand Daunais (1902 - 1982), "L'astronome" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Amable Massis (1893 - 1980), "L'Astronome", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Le Jardin des caresses, no. 2, Paris : éditions Costallat : Lucien de Lacour, éditeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto di Pierlas , "L'Astronome", published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Chants extraits du Jardin des caresses, no. 5, Publication : Paris : R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Pollet (1883 - 1961), "L'astronome", 1915, published 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants arabes, no. 2, Paris, Éditions Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Quinet (1898 - 1971), "L'Astronome", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies orientales, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Vuataz (1898 - 1988), "L'astronome", op. 17 no. 3 (1925) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Astronomer", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The Astronomer
Language: English after the French (Français)
Brahim the astronomer is very knowledgeable.
He knows towards which point in the sky a comet is heading,
but he has no idea where his wife, every evening,
meets her lover.
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