Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre,
  Qu'allez-vous faire
  [Si loin d'ici]1 ?
Voyez-vous pas que la nuit est profonde,
  Et que le monde
  N'est que souci ?

Vous qui croyez qu'une amour délaissée
  De la pensée
  S'enfuit ainsi,
Hélas ! hélas ! chercheurs de renommée,
  Votre fumée
  S'envole aussi.

[Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre,
  Qu'allez-vous faire
  Si loin de nous ?]2
J'en vais pleurer, moi qui me laissais dire
  Que mon sourire
  Était si doux.

V. Massé sets stanzas 1, 3
F. Schmitt sets stanzas 1, 3

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Confirmed with Alfred de Musset, Poésies nouvelles (1836-1852), Paris, Charpentier, 1857, page 141.

First published in La Quenouille de Barberine, a comedy in two acts, Éd. La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1835.

¹ Koster: "Si loin d'ici de nous"; Schmitt: "Aussi loin d'ici ? loin de nous"
² omitted by Schmitt.

Text Authorship:

• by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson de Barberine", written 1835, appears in Poésies nouvelles, appears in La Quenouille de Barberine, comédie en 2 actes [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 Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909), "Chanson de Barberine", 1889 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by José André (1881 - 1944), "Chanson de Barberine", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies et chansons, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ange-Marie Auzende (1850 - 1940), "Chanson de Barberine", published [1875] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. & A. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gilbert Beaume (1888 - 1967), "Ballade", 1912, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Édition Gilbert Beaume [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Bonnal Ermend (1881 - 1944), "Chanson de Barberine" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Colin Brumby (b. 1933), "Chanson de Barberine" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Chanson de Barberine", 1941 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Chanson de Barberine", subtitle: "Sur le thème de la gavotte de la 'Suite anglaise n°3' de J.S. Bach", 1925, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from 1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach, no. 1, Éd. G. Ricordi & C. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Chanson de Barberine", published 1884 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 2, no. 15, Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by André-Marie Cuvelier , "La chanson de Barberine", 1941 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons pour Hélène, 8ème recueil, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Chanson de Barberine", 1861, published [1882] [ mezzo-soprano and piano or harp ], Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Paul Abraham Dukas (1865 - 1935), "Chanson de Barberine", 1884 [ soprano and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul d'Estribaud (1828 - 1911), "Chanson de Barberine", <<1853 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Meissonnier fils [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paulo Florence (1864 - 1949), "Chanson de Barberine" [ voice and piano ], from Três canções francesas, no. 1, Rio de Janeiro: Bevilacqua [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Henri Boyer de Fonscolombe, Baron de la Môle (1838 - 1907), "La chanson de Barberine", published [1870] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Sylvain St Étienne, ancienne Maison Aulagnier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Victor-Léon Gallois (1880 - 1941), "Chanson de Barberine", published 1908 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "Chanson de Barberine", op. 9 (Deux Mélodies) no. 2 (1914), published 1917 [ high voice and piano ], London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
• by Olivier Greif (1950 - 2000), "La chanson de Barberine", 2000, from 3 Settings of Musset [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles-Léon Hess (1844 - 1926), "Chanson de Barberine", published 1878-1879 [ soprano and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lou Koster (1889 - 1973), "Chanson de Barberine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Chanson de Barberine" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "Chanson de Barberine", 1870 [ contralto and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Loret (1837 - 1870), "Chanson de Barberine", published [1868] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "La chanson de Barberine", stanzas 1,3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jean-Louis Petit (b. 1937), "Chanson de Barberine", 1997 [ high voice and piano ], from Livre de poésies, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edmond de Polignac, prince (1834 - 1901), "Chanson de Barberine", 1901?, published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ], in the musical supplement to the journal Figaro, May 18, 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
• by André Pollonnais (d. 1932), "Chanson de Barberine", <<1909 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. O. Bouwens van der Boijen [sung text not yet checked]
• by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Chanson de Barberine", 1868?, published [1879] [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano - 2^ième receuil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Richault & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by C. Renvoisé , "Chanson de Barberine", <<1911 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Chanson de Barberine", op. 83 (Zehn Lieder aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und Englischen übersetzt von N. Roda und A. v. Winterfeld für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3 [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel de Saint-Quentin (1846 - 1926), "Ballade de Barberine" [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies célèbres, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
• by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Martiale", op. 39 no. 6 (1905), published 1909, stanzas 1,3 [ SATB quartet and orchestra or piano ], from Chansons à 4 voix, no. 6, Paris: A.Z. Mathot [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Poll da Silva , "La chanson de Barberine", published 1881-1882 [ high voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
• by Étienne Soubre (1813 - 1871), "Chanson de Barberine", 1853 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arthur Goring Thomas (1850 - 1892), "Chanson de Barberine", published [1883] [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 12, London, Metzler & Co. Limited, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Chanson de Barberine", 1899, published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by William Money Hardinge (1854 - 1916) ; composed by Arthur Goring Thomas.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld (1824 - 1888) and possibly by N. Roda ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Victoria de Menil) , "Handsome knight, you who leave for war", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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