Mandolina | Los que dan las serenatas

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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Translation © by Alfredo García

Les donneurs de sérénades

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG SPA

Les donneurs de sérénades
Et les belles écouteuses
Échangent des propos fades
Sous les ramures chanteuses.

C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte,
Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre,
Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte
Cruelle [fait]¹ maint vers tendre.

Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
Leurs longues robes à queues,
Leur élégance, leur joie
Et leurs molles ombres bleues

Tourbillonnent dans l'extase
D'une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.

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• G. Fauré • R. Hahn

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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 33-34. Note: All the ampersands (&) that appeared in the first publication were changed to "et".

Note: first appeared in La Gazette rimée, February 20, 1867, under the title "Trumeau", and then in Fêtes galantes, Paris, éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, under the title "Mandoline".

¹ Fauré, Hahn: "fit"

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Francis de Bourguignon (1890 - 1961), "Mandoline", op. 27, published 1928 [ soprano and piano ], Bruxelles, CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Mandoline", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Énoch [sung text not yet checked]
by Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881 - 1971), "Fêtes galantes", 1932 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gérard Condé (b. 1947), "Mandoline", 1973, published 2001 [ reciter and piano ], from Fêtes galantes, récitation accompagnée au piano, no. 3, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Cornet (d. 1946), as Charles Tenroc, "Mandoline", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart, Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Mandoline", L. 43/(29) (1881-2), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand et Schœnewerk [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921), "Mandoline", 1909, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Alsbach & Co [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Mandoline", 1901, published 1901 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Mandoline", op. 58 no. 1 (1891), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies "de Venise", no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Mandoline", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Fournier (1853 - 1935), "Mandoline", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Mandoline" [sung text not yet checked]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Fêtes galantes", 1892, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 11, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Mandoline", published 1906-10 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Gant, Oscar Berte [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Mandoline", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies de Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Paris, Demets [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984), "Mandoline", 1904, published 1911, orchestrated 1912 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1, Le Flem, P. Édition Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Marié , "Mandoline", subtitle: "À la chanson parisienne", published [1912] [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Poulalion [sung text not yet checked]
by Bernard Panouillot , "Mandoline", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882 - 1949), "Mandoline", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons, no. 4, Vienna, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
by Gil Plechoyano , "Mandoline", published 1930 [ reciter and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), as Bernard de Lisle, "Mandoline", 1911, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre Salet (1875 - 1936), "Mandoline", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Fêtes galantes, no. 1, Paris Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
by Carlos Suffern (1901 - 1991), "Mandoline", 1928 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Mandoline", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 10, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) , "Mandoline" ; composed by William Spencer Johnson.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942) , "Mandolinen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Fêtes Galantes, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., p. 26, first published 1906 ; composed by Othmar Schoeck, Richard Trunk, Erich J. Wolff.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wolf von Kaickreuth, Graf (1887 - 1906) , "Mandoline" ; composed by Max Kowalski.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Mandoliny"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 73

Mandolina

Language: Spanish (Español) after the French (Français)

Los que dan las serenatas
Y las bellas que escuchan
Parlotean con recato
Bajo el rumor de la fronda.

Es Tircis y es Aminta,
Es el eterno Clítandro
Y también Damis, que a tantas
Paga desdén con ternezas.

Breves levitas de seda,
Largos vestidos de cola,
Su elegancia, su alegría
Y sus sombras desvaídas

Giran, cautivos del éxtasis
De una luna rosa y gris.
Y en la brisa estremecida
Lo glosa todo la mandolina.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2004 by Alfredo García, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 74