Composer: Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 - 28 December 1937)
Lyricist: Roland de Marès (15 April 1874 - 11 June 1955)
Soprano: Sabine Devieilhe (born 12 December 1985)
Pianist: Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968)
Copyright 1975 by Arima corp. and éditions Salabert, Paris, France
In Bohemia, there was a Queen,
The sweet sister of the crown of Thule;
And of such beauty she bore without equal,
A queen she was, just by Grace alone.
Then Bohemia's great laureate,
By night forlorn in auburn air
Slipped a platitude: 'Thee I love';
Crazed souls, and hearts so wild!
For the lov'ly One so greatly fair
Was so beloved by this minstrel boy
That she wept, and in utmost clarity
Exhaled her soul, who fled into the stars.
The great peals of Bohemia resonated
And the Thulian carillons echoed in the depths,
Exalting the final elegies
Of the Queen who died of Love.
Studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, the young and future-esteemed Maurice Ravel commenced his formal début as a composer by completing a couple of brief pieces in the year 1893: a Sérénade grotesque (Grotesque serenade) which had been initiated the preceding year, and a melody for high voice and piano entitled Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer (Ballad of the queen who died of love); though he had actually written several works beforehand, though these were merely compulsory student exercises.
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