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En avril, sous les branches Au feuillage frileux, En cherchant des pervenches, J'ai trouvé tes yeux bleus : Et j'ai vu tes mains blanches Parmi les lys neigeux, En avril, sous les branches Au feuillage frileux. Et, comme un nid joyeux, Ton petit cœur aux cieux Contait ses gaîtés franches, En avril sous les branches Au feuillage frileux.
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Text Authorship:
- by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), no title, appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, in Mignonne, no. 2 [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 Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Mignonne", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 1a, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Mignonne", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 1b, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "En Avril, sous les branches", 1877, published 1877-1878 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique, no. 77 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Jongen (1873 - 1953), "En avril", 1892 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept mélodies d’Armand Silvestre, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Sous les branches", 1868, published 1869 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edmond Michotte (1831 - 1914), "En avril" [ medium voice and piano ], from Mignonne, no. 2, Bruxelles, Schott Frères [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 57
In April under the branches in the delicate foliage, as I looked for periwinkles, I found your blue eyes. And I saw your pale hands among the snow-white lilies, in April under the branches in the delicate foliage. And like a joyous nest, your little heart was telling the heavens of its honest joys, in April under the branches in the delicate foliage.
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- a text in French (Français) by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), no title, appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, in Mignonne, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2022-08-03
Line count: 13
Word count: 63