by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906 - 2001)
Chant du feu
Language: French (Français)  after the Bantu
Feu que les hommes regardent dans la nuit, dans la nuit profonde [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906 - 2001), "Chant du feu", appears in Poèmes, Paris, Éd. du Seuil, first published 1964, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bantu 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 Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "Chant du feu", 1976, first performed 1977. [high voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-04
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Word count: 143