Pièces pour chant et piano

Song Cycle by Louis Abbiate (1866 - 1933)

1. Sérénade de Pierrot

Language: French (Français)

Mademoiselle aux yeux d'opale
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by V. Mandelstam , no title

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2. Chanson d'automne [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français)

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
   De l'automne
Blessent mon cœur
D'une langueur
   Monotone.

Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
   Sonne l'heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
   Et je pleure ;

Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
   Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
   Feuille morte.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Chanson d'automne", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 5, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "The long sobs", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Judith Kellock) , "Song of autumn", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Autumn song", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Autumn Song", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 5
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Herbstlied", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Herbstgesang", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Herbstlied", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Árpád Tóth) , "Őszi chanson"
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Canzone d'autunno", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
POL Polish (Polski) (Teresa Prażmowska) , "Pieśń jesienna", first published 1889
POL Polish (Polski) (Barbara Beaupré) , "Jesienna pieśń"

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Paysages tristes, pages 57-58.

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3. Sérénade [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français)

Comme la voix d'un mort qui chanterait
	Du fond de sa fosse,
Maîtresse, entends monter vers ton retrait
	Ma voix aigre et fausse.

Ouvre ton âme et ton oreille au son
	De la mandoline :
Pour toi j'ai fait, pour toi, cette chanson
	Cruelle et câline.

Je chanterai tes yeux d'or et d'onyx
	Purs de toutes ombres,
Puis le Léthé de ton sein, puis le Styx
	De tes cheveux sombres.

Comme la voix d'un mort qui chanterait
	Du fond de sa fosse,
Maîtresse, entends monter vers ton retrait
	Ma voix aigre et fausse.

Puis je louerai beaucoup, comme il convient,
	Cette chair bénie
Dont le parfum opulent me revient
	Les nuits d'insomnie.

Et pour finir, je dirai le baiser
	De ta lèvre rouge,
Et ta douceur à me martyriser,
	— Mon Ange ! — ma Gouge !

Ouvre ton âme et ton oreille au son
	De ma mandoline :
Pour toi j'ai fait, pour toi, cette chanson
	Cruelle et câline.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Sérénade", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Serenade", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Serenade", appears in Poems Saturnine
GER German (Deutsch) ( Wolf von Kalckreuth, Graf) , "Serenade"

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, pages 93-95.

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4. Les Tristesses

Language: French (Français)

Les Tristesses au fond des coeurs Dorment, solubles entraves
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by V. Mandelstam

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5. Elle avait un sourire d'ange

Language: French (Français)

Elle avait un sourire d'ange
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6. Über allen Gipfeln [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch)

Über allen [Gipfeln]¹
Ist Ruh',
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die [Vögelein]² schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.³

Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Ein Gleiches", written 1780, first published 1815

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AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Dostál-Lutinov) , "Počkej", first published 1917
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Wim Reedijk) , "Boven alle bergen", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Trekkers nachtlied II", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Over all the peaks it is peaceful", copyright ©
ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "The wanderer's night-song", appears in The Poems of Goethe, first published 1853
ENG English [singable] (Arthur Westbrook) , "Wanderer's night song"
ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Yölaulu", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le chant de nuit du voyageur II", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au sommet de tous les pics", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sopra ogni vetta", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Canto notturno del viandante I", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , "Sobre todas las cumbres", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Erster Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1827, page 109; and with Goethe's Werke. Erster Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1815, page 99.

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".

See also J.D. Falk's poem Unter allen Wipfeln ist Ruh.

¹ Flügel, Gaugler, Hasse, Radecke: "Wipfeln" (according to the incipits given in Hofmeister) ; further changes may exist not noted above.
² Greith, Schubert: "Vöglein"
³ Lachner adds

Über allen Wipfeln
Ist Ruh',
Balde
Ruhest du auch.

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7. Chanson [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français)

Va ! sans nul autre souci
Que de conserver ta joie !
Fripe les jupes de soie
Et goûte les vers aussi.

La morale la meilleure,
En ce monde où les plus fous
Sont les plus sages de tous,
C'est encor d'oublier l'heure.

Il s'agit de n'être point
Mélancolique et morose.
La vie est-elle une chose
Grave et réelle à ce point ?

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), appears in Jadis et naguère, in Jadis, in Sonnets et autres vers, in 21. Les Uns et les Autres

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8. Squelette réponds‑moi [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français)

Squelette, réponds-moi : Qu’as-tu fait de ton âme ?
  Flambeau, qu’as-tu fait de ta flamme ?
    Cage déserte, qu’as-tu fait
    De ton bel oiseau qui chantait ?
  Volcan, qu’as-tu fait de ta lave ?
  Qu’as-tu fait de ton maître, esclave ?

Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title

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Confirmed with Anecdotes parisiennes. Aventures -- Excentricités -- Joyeusetés -- Bon mots des salons, de la rue et du Boulevard. Recueillis par Louis Loire, Paris, E. Dentu, 1880, page 59. Attributed to Victor Hugo. Later appeared in Dr. Garrulus, Les gaietés de la médecine, Paris, Société d'Éditions scientifiques, 1896, titled "Immortalité".

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9. Chanson à boire

Language: French (Français)

Or s'enivrer seul est maussade
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10. C'est l'extase langoureuse [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français)

C'est l'extase langoureuse,
C'est la fatigue amoureuse,
C'est tous les frissons des bois
Parmi l'étreinte des brises,
C'est vers les ramures grises
Le choeur des petites voix.

O le frêle et frais murmure !
Cela gazouille et susurre,
Cela ressemble au [cri]¹ doux
Que l'herbe agitée expire...
Tu dirais, sous l'eau qui vire,
Le roulis sourd des cailloux.

Cette âme qui se lamente
[En]² cette plainte dormante
C'est la nôtre, n'est-ce pas ?
La mienne, dis, et la tienne,
Dont s'exhale l'humble antienne
Par ce tiède soir, tout bas ?

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 1, first published 1872

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¹ Fauré: "bruit"
² Fauré: "Et"

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