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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation © by Anna Brull Piñol
Fantoches
Language: French (Français)
Scaramouche et Pulcinella, Qu'un mauvais dessein rassembla, Gesticulent noirs sous la lune, Cependant l'excellent docteur Bolonais Cueille avec lenteur des simples Parmi l'herbe brune. Lors sa fille, piquant minois, Sous la charmille, en tapinois, Se glisse demi-nue, En quête de son beau pirate espagnol, Dont un [langoureux]1 rossignol Clame la détresse à tue-tête.
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1 Debussy: "amoureux"
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1 Debussy: "amoureux"
Authorship
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Fantoches", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 11, first published 1869 [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 Charles Colas , "Fantoches", c1937 [voice and piano or orchestra] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Gérard Condé (b. 1947), "Fantoches", 1973, published 2001 [reciter and piano], from Fêtes galantes, récitation accompagnée au piano, no. 1, Éd. Henry Lemoine [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Fantoches", L. 26/(21) (1881-2) [voice and piano], one of two settings [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Fantoches", L. 86/(80) no. 2, published 1891 [voice and piano], from Fêtes Galantes I, no. 2, Paris, Hamelle [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Fantoches", published 1927 [voice and piano], from Pastels, suite de mélodies sur des Fétes galantes , no. 5, Paris, Gallet [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Fantoches", 1908, published 1913 [voice and piano], from Le Parc, no. 8, Berlin, Fürstner [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882 - 1949), "Fantoches", op. 40 no. 3, published 1929 [voice and piano], from Quattro liriche, no. 3, Milan, Carisch [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880 - 1932), "Fantoches", 1912, published 1913 [voice and piano], Paris, Rœder [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Adrien Remacle , "Fantoches", published 1907 [voice and piano], from Les fêtes galantes. Esquisses mélodiques sur les poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Paris, Hachette [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Marcel Trémois (1891 - 1974), "Fantoches", published 1921 [voice and piano], from Mélodies, 1er recueil, Paris, Sénart [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) , "Fantoches" CAT FIN GER GER ; composed by William Spencer Johnson.
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist CAT ENG ENG FIN GER GER ; composed by Valentino Bucchi.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Anna Brull Piñol) , "Titelles", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Claycomb) (Peter Grunberg) , "Puppets", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Marionetit", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Marionetten", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Marionetten", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 53
Titelles
Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)
Scaramouche i Pulcinella quina idea malèvola reuneixen, gesticulen negres sota la lluna, mentre l'exel·lent doctor Bolonyès cull lentament mostres entre l'herba bruna. Llavors la seva filla, tota coqueta, sobre el prat, de puntetes, s'esfuma mig nua a la recerca del seu bell pirata español, on el seu (amoròs) rossinyol proclama la seva angoixa a crits.
Authorship
- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2010 by Anna Brull Piñol, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Fantoches", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 11, first published 1869
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 55