Autre Guitare

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.

Authorship

by Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) , "Autre Guitare", from Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 23, published 1838

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", 1927-37 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Cinq mélodies, no. 3.
by Georges Bizet (1838-1875) , "Guitare"
by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849-1895) , "Guitare", op. 10 no. 11 [voice and piano], Paris, Durand & Schoenewerck
by Serge Gut (1927-) , "Guitare", 1951? [soprano or tenor and piano], from Deux mélodies pour ténor ou soprano et piano, no. 1.
by Jean-Georges Kastner (1810-1867) , "Comment, disaient-ils" [four-part men's chorus and piano]
by Louis (Brouillon) Lacombe (1818-1884) , "Guitare"
by Edouard Lalo (1823-1892) , "Guitare", op. 17 (6 Mélodies) no. 1 (1856). [voice and piano]
by (Alexandre) Charles Lecocq (1832-1918) , "Guitare"
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Comment, disaient-ils", S. 276 (1843), also set in German
by Victor Massé (1822-1884) , "Ramez, dormez, aimez!"
by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) , "Guitare", 1886, published 1886. [voice and piano]
by Paul Charles Marie Puget (1848-1917) [pseudonym] , "Comment, disaient-ils"
by Henri Reber (1807-1880) , "Guitare"
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
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) , "Guitare", 1851, published 1870.
by Marcel Trémois (1891-1974) , "Guitare", published 1926. [voice and piano]

by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) , "Oni otvechali", op. 21 no. 4 (1902).

by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Was tun?", S. 276 (1843), also set in French

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
GER German [singable] ((Johann) Philipp Kaufmann) , title unknown
CHI Chinese (Yen-Chiang Che) , "“怎麼辦?” 他們問", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , ""O how," murmured he"

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