by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Adèle
Language: French (Français)
A Douvres un original tombe un jour dans le chenal il appelle au sauvetage Il se cramponne au récif mais vers lui nul coeur ne nage Adèle, ainsi meur l'oisif.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921 [author's text not yet checked 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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Adèle", H. 148 no. 2 (1941), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Adèle", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Adèle", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Adèle", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 30