by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Cécile
Language: French (Français)
Le grandchinois de Lancastre vous attire avec des fleurs puis vous inonde d'odeurs... bientôt sa pipe est votre astre! Du lys au pavot, Cécile, la route, hélas, est docile.
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), "Cécile", H. 148 no. 3 (1941), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Cécile", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Cécile", 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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