by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900)
Translation Singable translation by Nita Cox
Summer Hours
Language: English after the French (Français)
The petals drop noiselessly down
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Nita Cox
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), no title, written 1890, appears in Au jardin de l'Infante, in 1. Les Heures d'été, no. 6, first published 1890
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by René-Emmanuel Baton (1879 - 1940), as Emmanuel Rhené-Batôn, "Summer Hours", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Les heures d'été, no. 6, Paris : Durand & Cie.
Score: Sibley Music Library [external link]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Henry Grafton Chapman (1860 - 1913) ; composed by Henry Kimball Hadley.
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