by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942)
Les donneurs de sérénades
Language: French (Français)
Les donneurs de sérénades Et les belles écouteuses Échangent des propos fades Sous les ramures chanteuses. C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte, Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre, Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte Cruelle [fait]1 maint vers tendre. Leurs courtes vestes de soie, Leurs longues robes à queues, Leur élégance, leur joie Et leurs molles ombres bleues Tourbillonnent dans l'extase D'une lune rose et grise, Et la mandoline jase Parmi les frissons de brise.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 33-34. Note: All the ampersands (&) that appeared in the first publication were changed to "et".
Note: first appeared in La Gazette rimée, February 20, 1867, under the title "Trumeau", and then in Fêtes galantes, Paris, éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, under the title "Mandoline".
1 Fauré, Hahn: "fit"Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 [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 Francis de Bourguignon (1890 - 1961), "Mandoline", op. 27, published 1928 [ soprano and piano ], Bruxelles, CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
- by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Mandoline", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Énoch [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gérard Condé (b. 1947), "Mandoline", 1973, published 2001 [ reciter and piano ], from Fêtes galantes, récitation accompagnée au piano, no. 3, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Cornet (d. 1946), as Charles Tenroc, "Mandoline", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart, Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Mandoline", L. 43/(29) (1881-2), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand et Schœnewerk [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921), "Mandoline", 1909, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Alsbach & Co [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Mandoline", 1901, published 1901 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Mandoline", op. 58 no. 1 (1891), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies "de Venise", no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Mandoline", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Fournier (1853 - 1935), "Mandoline", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Mandoline" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Fêtes galantes", 1892, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 11, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Mandoline", published 1906-10 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Gant, Oscar Berte [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Mandoline", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies de Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Paris, Demets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984), "Mandoline", 1904, published 1911, orchestrated 1912 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1, Le Flem, P. Édition Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Marié , "Mandoline", subtitle: "À la chanson parisienne", published [1912] [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Poulalion [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881 - 1971), "Fêtes galantes", 1932 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Panouillot , "Mandoline", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882 - 1949), "Mandoline", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons, no. 4, Vienna, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gil Plechoyano , "Mandoline", published 1930 [ reciter and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880 - 1932), as Bernard de Lisle, "Mandoline", 1911, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlos Suffern (1901 - 1991), "Mandoline", 1928 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Mandoline", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 10, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) , "Mandoline" ; composed by William Spencer Johnson.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942) , "Mandolinen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Fêtes Galantes, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., p. 26, first published 1906 ; composed by Othmar Schoeck, Richard Trunk, Erich J. Wolff.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wolf von Kaickreuth, Graf (1887 - 1906) , "Mandoline" ; composed by Max Kowalski.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Mandoliny"
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "Mandolina", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Nicolas Gounin [Guest Editor] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 72
Mandolinen
Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)
Leis dem Schmeichellied der Lauten kamen sie im Park zu lauschen, lächelnd unter blüh'nden Rauten wollen sie nun Worte tauschen. Da ist Tirsis und Aminde und Clitander auch, der gute, Damis, der manch' schönem Kinde Verse schrieb mit Herzensblute. Seidne Puderwämser, lang schleifen Schleppen, blaue weiche Schatten schwärmen überm Hang, spiegeln schimmernd sich im Teiche. Auf des Mondes Rosenwellen schwebt ein geisterhaftes Leben, und die Mandolinen schwellen, und ein Hauch macht sie erbeben.
Authorship:
- by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942), "Mandolinen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Fêtes Galantes, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., p. 26, first published 1906 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Mandolinen", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für höhere Stimme und Klavier) no. 6 (1907), published 1907 [ high voice and piano ], Zürich, Hug [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Mandolinen", op. 42 no. 3 (1920) [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gesänge mit Klavier nach Gedichten von Paul Verlaine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Mandolinen", op. 22 no. 5 (1910), published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], Berlin, Harmonie Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2011-07-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 73