Une goutte tombe, ensuite une autre. C'est la première pluie sur les premières roses. D'abord, elles frissonnent, attristées. Mais, bientôt, leurs couleurs s'avivent et leur parfum devient plus délicieux. Tes premières larmes sur notre amour.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1906, p.118
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La pluie sur les roses", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 124, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "La pluie sur les roses", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 14, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "La pluie sur les roses", op. 93 no. 6 (1926), published 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 6, Höflich, München [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Iberê de Lemos (1901 - 1967), "La pluie sur les roses (A chuva sobre as rosas)", op. 41 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julieff Melmeister (flourished c1927), "La pluie sur les roses", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris (20, rue du Dragon) : éditions Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Pollet (1883 - 1961), "La pluie sur les roses", 1915, published 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants arabes, no. 1, Paris, Éditions Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Morse Rummel (1887 - 1953), "La Pluie sur les roses", 1912, published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons arabes, no. 3, London, Augener [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Thève , "La Pluie sur les Roses" [sung text not yet checked]
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