by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Tout ce qui arrive
Language: French (Français)
Tout ce qui arrive pose un masque sur notre figure qui n'ose jamais être définitive. Ainsi nous passons pendant que la vie nous déguise. Et cette figure étrange dont personne ne s'avise, sera-t-elle un jour la surprise des Anges
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Ébauches et Fragments  [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 Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Tout ce qui arrive", 2015, copyright © 2015 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq frangments français de Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4, Mainz ; London ; Paris [etc.] : Schott [sung text not yet checked]
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