by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Voici encor de l'heure qui s'argente
Language: French (Français)
Voici encor de l'heure qui s'argente, mêlé au doux soir, le pur métal et qui ajoute à la beauté lente les lents retours d'un calme musical. L'ancienne terre se reprend et change: un astre pur survit à nos travaux. Les bruits épars, quittant le jour, se rangent et rentrent tous dans la voix des eaux.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 24 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Charlotte Bray , "la voix des eaux", 2010 [ tenor, piano, and string quartet ], from Verre de Venise, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Stefano Gervasoni (b. 1962), "Voici encor de l'heure qui s'argente", 1995, rev. 1996, first performed 1995 [ voice, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, and string quartet ], from Due poesie francesi di Rilke, no. 2, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-10-06
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