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Mélodies posthumes de Wintzweiller

by Eugène Wintzweiller (1844 - 1870)

. Chanson du fou

Language: French (Français) 
Au soleil couchant,
Toi qui vas cherchant
Fortune, 
Prends garde de choir;
La terre, le soir,
Est brune.
L'océan trompeur
Couvre de vapeur
La dune.
Vois, à l'horizon,
Aucune maison 
Aucune!

Maint voleur te suit,
La chose est, la nuit,
Commune.
Les dames des bois
Nous gardent parfois
Rancune.
Elles vont errer:
Crains d'en rencontrer
Quelqu'une.
Les lutins de l'air
Vont danser au clair
De lune.

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "La chanson du fou", appears in Odes et Ballades, in 6. Ballades - 1823-1828, no. 10a [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):

Set by Eugène Wintzweiller (1844 - 1870), published 1875 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. Joli Papillon

Language: French (Français) 
Joli Papillon, disait une fleur, Je t'aime !
 . . . . . . . . . .

— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Chauvet

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3. Nina  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Nina, ton sourire,
Ta voix qui soupire,
Tes yeux qui font dire
Qu'on croit au bonheur,

Les belles années,
Les douces journées,
Les roses fanées,
Mortes sur ton cœur...

Nina, ma charmante,
Pendant la tourmente,
La [mer]1 écumante
Grondait à nos yeux ;

Riante et fertile,
La plage tranquille
Nous [montre]2 l'asile
Qu'appelaient nos vœux !

Aimable Italie,
Sagesse ou folie,
Jamais ne t'oublie
Qui t'a vue [un jour, un seul jour]3 !

Toujours plus [chérie]4,
Ta rive fleurie
Sera la patrie
Que cherche l'amour, oui l'amour.

Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Cantate de Bettine", appears in Bettine [comédie], first published 1851

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Hillemacher, Koster: "vague"
2 Hillemacher, Koster: "montrait"
3 Koster: "un jour"
4 Koster: "chérie jolie"

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
Total word count: 155
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