Eros, ce briseur de membres |

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Eros, ce briseur de membres

Language: French (Français) after the Aeolic Greek

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Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 130
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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 Judith Adler (b. 1989), "Eros, ce briseur de membres", 2026 [ voice, clarinet and theorbo ], from Sapphô re-fragmentée, no. 2

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895) , no title ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Janet Oates.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , no title, appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, in 2. Das zweite Buch. Lieder aus dem Süd, in 5. Fragmente griechischer Lieder. Sappho, no. 3 [an adaptation] ; composed by Mathilde Kralik.
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Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) , no title ; composed by Goffredo Petrassi.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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