Trois Mélodies pour chant et piano sur des textes de poètes luxembourgeois

Sur les feuilles et sur l'eau,
la pluie joue un pizzicato;
le vent l'accompagne en andante,
crescendo, decrescendo.

Sur les rives, les roseaux
semblent danser des valses lentes, 
amoroso, 
et le lent heurt de leurs sveltesses
bruit impérialement
comme traînes de soie d'altesses.

Et la forêt comme une aïeule,
avec au front un navrement,
maestoso, bougonne seule.

Au doux andante
que le vent chante
con amore,
la pluie se berce
et se renverse
elangourée.

Comme accompagnement de basse,
un chœur de grenouilles coasse,
et saugrenu, pianissimo
sous les feuilles et dans l'eau.

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Palgen (1883 - 1966), "Pluie sur l'eau", written 1902-1908, appears in La route royale, Poèmes, in Musiques sur l'eau, 1902-1908, first published 1917 [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 Lou Koster (1889 - 1973) [ voice and piano ], Luxemburg: B. Schellenberg

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Confirmed with Paul Palgen, La route royale, Poèmes, Luxembourg, 1917, p. 34 (cycle : Musiques sur l'eau, 1902-1908).

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Text Authorship:

• by Willy Goergen (1867 - 1942)

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 Lou Koster (1889 - 1973) [ voice and piano ], Luxemburg: B. Schellenberg

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Text Authorship:

• by Nikolaus Welter (1871 - 1951)

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 Lou Koster (1889 - 1973) [ voice and piano ], Luxemburg : B. Schellenberg