by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Comment, disaient‑ils
Language: French (Français)
Comment, disaient-ils, Avec nos nacelles, Fuir les alguazils ? -- Ramez, disaient-elles. Comment, disaient-ils, Oublier querelles, Misère et périls ? -- Dormez, disaient-elles. Comment, disaient-ils, Enchanter les belles Sans philtres subtils ? -- Aimez, disaient-elles.
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• G. Bizet • P. Duchambge • E. Lalo • F. Liszt • J. Massenet • N. Reber • C. Saint-SaënsJ. Bordier sets stanzas 1, 3, 2
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Confirmed with Oeuvres de Victor Hugo: Les rayons et les ombres, Volume 4, Paris, V. A. Houssiaux, ed., Hébert et Cie, 1875, pages 325-326.
Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Autre guitare", appears in Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 23, first published 1838 [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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Autre guitare", 1927, published 1957 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Cinq mélodies, no. 3, Bruxelles, Éd. CéBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Guitare", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 6a, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Guitare", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 6b, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Guitare", published <<1917 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 4e série, no. 65, Paris, Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Olivier René Bibard (1863 - 1935), as Charles René, "Guitare" [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. E. Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Guitare", 1866, published 1866 [ high voice and piano ], from Feuilles d'Album, no. 4, Paris, Éd. “Au Ménestrel” Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jules Bordier (1846 - 1896), "Guitare", published 1880?, stanzas 1,3,2 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 11, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Coquard (1846 - 1910), "Guitare", published <<1881 [ medium voice and piano ], from 12 Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 8, Éd. Léon Escudier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Comment, disaient-ils", 1870-79? [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 10, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Delafosse (1874 - 1951), "Comment, disaient-ils", published 1918 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 4, Genève, Éd. Ad. Henn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Comment disaient-ils", 1879 [ vocal duet ], unfinished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pauline Duchambge (1778 - 1858), "Guitare" [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Veuve Launer [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "Comment, disaient-ils" [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Troisième recueil de vingt Mélodies chant et piano de J. Faure, no. 20, Édition Heugel 'Au Ménestrel' [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Guitare", op. 10 no. 11, published [1870] [ voice and piano ], from 12 morceaux de chant, 3-ième série, no. 11, kÉd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Serge Gut (1927 - 2014), "Guitare", 1951? [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Deux mélodies pour ténor ou soprano et piano, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond Hippeau (1849 - 1921), "Guitare", published [1910] [ high voice and piano ], from Chants de jeunesse 2. série, no. 1, Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jenő Hubay (1858 - 1937), "Comment disaient-ils", op. 12 (Trois Mélodies) no. 2, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Georges Kastner (1810 - 1867), "Comment, disaient-ils" [ four-part men's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Charles François Kreutzer (1817 - 1868), "Guitare" [ high voice and piano ], from 26 mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 24, Éd. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Guitare" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "Guitare", op. 17 (6 Mélodies) no. 1 (1856) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Alexandre) Charles Lecocq (1832 - 1918), "Guitare" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Comment, disaient-ils", S. 276 (1843), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Ramez, dormez, aimez!" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Guitare", 1886, published 1886 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Isabelle Marie Henriette Mellerio , as Ellebasi, "Comment, disaient-ils (Barcarolle)" [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Quinzard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Perry-Biagioli (d. 1907), "Guitare", published [1875] [ high voice and piano ], from 20 Mélodies, 1er volume, no. 17, Paris, Éd. 'Au Magasin du Conservatoire', O'Kelly [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Guitare" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Romance" [ voice and piano ], note: first published as opus 3 (Moskow, Gresser), but the opus number was reused later [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Guitare", 1851, published 1870 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Hartmann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marcel Trémois (1891 - 1974), "Guitare", published 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Theobald Rehbaum (1835 - 1918) ; composed by Franz Liszt.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862) ; composed by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov, Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "“怎麼辦?” 他們問", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "How then, asked he", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "How, asked the men", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , ""O how," murmured he"
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] ((Johann) Philipp Kaufmann)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 29