by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
Language: French (Français)
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons Avec tes lèvres sans le dire Cette rose ne l'interromps Qu'à verser un silence pire Jamais de chants ne lancent prompts Le scintillement du sourire Si tu veux nous nous aimerons Avec tes lèvres sans le dire Muet muet entre les ronds Sylphe dans la pourpre d'empire Un baiser flambant se déchire Jusqu'aux pointes des ailerons Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Stéphane Mallarmé, Poésies, Nouvelle Revue française, 1914 (8e éd.) (p. 113). First published in the revue La Plume, March 15, 1896.
Text Authorship:
- by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), no title, written 1889, appears in Poésies, in Feuillets d'Album, in Rondels, no. 2 [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 George Beach (c1893 - 1951), "Si tu veux nous nous aimerons", subtitle: "Rondel", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], in the supplement to the journal Le courrier musical, April 1, 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vittorio Gui (1885 - 1975), "Rondel", 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Pizzi & C. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Tibor Harsányi (1898 - 1954), "Rondel", 1943 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq chants nostalgiques, no. 4, Éd. Durand? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Rondel II", 1993-5, first performed 1995 [ coloratura soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Huit Poésies de Mallarmé, no. 4, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau (1889 - 1939), as Pierre Vellones, "Rondel", op. 24 no. 2 (1929) [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Mallarmé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Rondel II", op. 96 no. 9 (2018) [ soprano and piano ], from Livre de Mélodies Françaises, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rémy-Michel Trotier (b. 1970), "Si tu veux, nous nous aimerons", 1991, published 1997 [ baritone and piano ], from Deux poèmes de S. Mallarmé, no. 1, Éd. de L'Armateur [sung text not yet checked]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2012-03-05
Line count: 13
Word count: 68