Je maudissais la pluie qui faisait résonner mon toit et M'empêchait de dormir Je maudissais le vent qui saccageait mon jardin. Mais, tu es arrivée ! Et j'ai remercié la pluie, puisque tu as dû ôter ta robe Mouillée et j'ai remercié le vent, qui venait d'éteindre ma lampe.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "L'orage favorable", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Tsao Chang Ling (1719 - 1763) [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 Jean Cartan (1906 - 1932), "L'orage favorable", 1927, published 1928 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois chants d'été, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun (1892 - 1920), "L'Orage favorable", op. 51, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poésies extraites de la Flûte de Jade, no. 2, Paris : éditions Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "L'orage favorable", 1917, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes chinois extraits de La Flûte de Jade de Franz Toussaint, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Manuel M. Ponce (1883 - 1948), "L'orage favorable", 1931, first performed 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Cinco poemas chinos, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yves Ramette (1921 - 2012), "L'orage favorable", op. 17 no. 1 (1960) [ voice and piano ], from La Flûte de jade, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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