by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
À Saint‑Blaise, à la Zuecca
Language: French (Français)
À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca, Vous étiez, vous étiez bien aise À Saint-Blaise. À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca, Nous étions bien là. Mais de vous en souvenir Prendrez-vous la peine ? Mais de vous en souvenir Et d'y revenir, À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca, Dans les prés fleuris cueillir la verveine, À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca, Vivre et mourir là !
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Text Authorship:
- by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson: À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca", appears in Poésies nouvelles [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 José André (1881 - 1944), "À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies et chansons, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Cahen d’Anvers (1846 - 1903), "À Saint Blaise" [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 3, Édition Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aimé Champommier (1823 - 1882), "À Saint Blaise", published [1865] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "À Saint-Blaise, à la Zuecca", 1870-79? [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 17, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charlotte Devéria, née Thomas (1856 - 1885), "À Saint-Blaise" [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 3ème recueil, no. 13, Éd. "Au Ménestrel", Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Auguste Guéroult (1836 - 1911), "À Saint Blaise", op. 3 no. 4, published [1866] [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons d'Alfred de Musset, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "La zuecca", 1870 [ contralto and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Lefebvre (1843 - 1917), "À Saint Blaise, à la Zuecca", published c1873 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six poésies mises en musique, no. 5, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Vivre et mourir là!", subtitle: "Chanson vénitienne à deux voix" [ vocal duet with piano ], from Troisième recueil de mélodies de V. Massé, no. 18, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Souvenir de Venise", alternate title: "À la Zuecca", 1872, published 1872 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "À la Zuecca", 1872, published [1887] [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano or orchestra ], Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Émile Pessard (1843 - 1917), "À Saint Blaise", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937), "À Saint Blaise" [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), as Jean Hubert, "À Saint Blaise" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, trente deux mélodies, no. 29, Paris, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "À Saint-Blaize", op. 83 (Zehn Lieder aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und Englischen übersetzt von N. Roda und A. v. Winterfeld für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch), also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld (1824 - 1888) and possibly by N. Roda ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Sergei Ivanovich Donaurov (1839 - 1897) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Victoria de Menil) , "In St. Blaise at the Zuecca", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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