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First published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, nouvelle série, February 1, 1920 (7ème année, n°77).

Text Authorship:

• by René Chalupt (1885 - 1957), "Les journées d'août", written 1916-1917, appears in Onchets, in 29. Les Soirées de Pétrograd, in 2. La Révolution, no. 10, first published 1920 [author's text not yet checked 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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Les Journées d'août", op. 55 no. 8 (1919), published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les Soirées de Pétrograde, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "August days", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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