Songs
Romance de Mignon
(1869)
Romance de Mignon
Le connais-tu ce radieux paysOù brille dans les branches l’or des fruits?Un doux zéphyr embaume l’airEt le laurier s’unit au myrte vert.Le connais-tu? Le connais-tu?Là-bas, là-bas mon bien-aiméCourons porter nos pas.Le connais-tu ce merveilleux séjourOù tout me parle encore de notre amour?Où chaque objet me dit avec douleurQui t’a ravi ta joie et ton bonheur?Le connais-tu? Le connais-tu?Là-bas, là-bas, mon bien-aiméCourons porter nos pas.
Mignon's Romance
Do you know that radiant landWhere golden fruit shines among the branches?A gentle breeze scents the airAnd the laurel grows by the green myrtle.Do you know it? Do you know it?Yonder, yonder, my beloved.Hasten, thither let us go.Do you know that marvellous dwellingWhere all still speaks to me of our love?Where each thing asks with sadnessWho has robbed you of your joy and happiness?Do you know it? Do you know it?Yonder, yonder, my belovedHasten, thither let us go.
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
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Composer
Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
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Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Previously performed at:
- 24 Oct 2018: A French Songbook: Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff
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Romance de Mignon
Mignon's Romance
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
Read more here.
See Full Entry
Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
See Full Entry
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Previously performed at:
- 24 Oct 2018: A French Songbook: Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff
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