by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912)
Le Faune
Language: French (Français)
Un vieux faune de terre cuite Rit au centre des boulingrins, Présageant sans doute une suite Mauvaise à ces instants sereins Qui m'ont conduit et t'ont conduite, Mélancoliques pèlerins, Jusqu'à cette heure dont la fuite Tournoie au son des tambourins.
Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, page 31.
Note: The ampersand (&) as appears in the first publication is changed to "et".
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Le faune", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 14, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1869 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Marie Anderson , "Le faune", published 1960 [ three-part chorus or vocal sextet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Le faune", 2001 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Colas , "Le faune", published 1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Le Faune", L. 114/(104) no. 2 (1904), published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Fêtes Galantes II, no. 2, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Delapierre , "Le faune", [1948] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Camille Erlanger (1863 - 1919), "Le faune", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle; first published in Le Figaro, Supp. Litt., May 7 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Le faune", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Pastels, suite de mélodies sur des Fétes galantes , no. 4, Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Le faune", 1908, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Le Parc, no. 11, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Le faune", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adrien Remacle (1849 - 1916), "Le faune", published [1907] [ voice and piano ], from Les fêtes galantes. Esquisses mélodiques sur les poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 4, Paris, Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Le faune", KSS 65 no. 1 (1941), published 1988, first performed 2001 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes, no. 1, Bath, The Sorabji Archive; new edition [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) , "Der Faun" ; composed by Max Kowalski.
- Also set in Hungarian (Magyar), a translation by Lőrinc Szabó (1900 - 1957) ; composed by József Soproni.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Na sošku fauna v parku"
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The faun", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Nita Cox) , "The dancing faun"
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The faun", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The Faun", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Faun", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "A faun", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 40
Na sošku fauna v parku
Language: Czech (Čeština) after the French (Français)
Faun starý z hlíny pálené se směje v středu trávníků, snad věstí štěstí zkalené veselých našich podniků, Jež svedly sem nás vzdálené, nás truchlivých dvé poutníků, ku lásky chvilce ztracené, jež mře v tamburín povyku.
Text Authorship:
- by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912), "Na sošku fauna v parku" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Le faune", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 14, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1869
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 35