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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Mélancolie d'avril
Language: French (Français) 
Voici que le soleil d’Avril
Vers les renouveaux nous ramène.
Pourquoi le printemps ne peut-il
Rajeunir aussi l’âme humaine ?

Les siècles, comme des hivers,
Ont posé sur ses destinées
Et dépouillé de rameaux verts
Ses espérances surannées.

Devant ses mornes horizons
Se dresse l’angoisse éternelle,
Et le souffle des floraisons
Ne fait rien refleurir en elle.

Survivant au rêve défunt
Qu’effeuilla le vent de l’aurore,
L’amour est un dernier parfum,
Qu’en mourant elle exhale encore !

Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Les Ailes d’or : poésies nouvelles, 1878-1880, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, pages 91-92.


Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Mélancolie d'avril", appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 7 [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), "Mélancolie d'avril", op. 19 no. 4, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Les Ailes d'Or, no. 4, St. Petersburg, Zimmermann, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev (1855 - 1927) ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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This text was added to the website: 2021-05-08
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