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Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants,
Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies,
Je regarde couler, [comme]1 l'eau [des torrents]2,
Tes jours faits de [mélancolies]3.
Sur l'aile [du regret]4 mes esprits emportés,
-- Comme s'il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse ! --
Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés
Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse.
Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur,
Refleurir en bouquet les roses deliées
Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu'en mon cœur,
Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées !
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Les Ailes d’or : poésies nouvelles, 1878-1880, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, pages 117-118.
1 Flégier: "avec"2 Fauré: "du torrent"
3 Fauré: "mélancolie"
4 Fauré: "des regrets"
Text Authorship:
- by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Chanson d’automne", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 19, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, first published 1880 [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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Chanson d'automne", op. 19 no. 5, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Les Ailes d'Or, no. 5, St. Petersburg, Zimmermann, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Automne", op. 18 no. 3 (1878), published 1880 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Chant d'automne" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Automne", op. 52 no. 2 (1994), published 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Armand Silvestre, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev (1855 - 1927) ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Robert Garrigós) , "Tardor", copyright © 2011, (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) , "Autumn", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Herbst", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Autunno", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 86
Autumn, time of misty skies and heart-breaking horizons,
of rapid sunsets and pale dawns,
I watch your melancholy days
flow past like a torrent.
My thoughts borne off on the wings of regret
(as if our time could ever be relived!)
dreamingly wander the enchanted slopes
where my youth once used to smile.
In the bright sunlight of triumphant memory
I feel the scattered roses reblooming in bouquets;
and tears well up in my eyes, tears which my heart
at twenty had already forgotten!
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2001 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Chanson d’automne", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 19, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, first published 1880
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 85