Chanson d’automne | Automne | Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons...

Language: French (Français)

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Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants,
Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies,
Je regarde couler, [comme]¹ l'eau [des torrents]²,
       Tes jours faits de [mélancolies]³.

Sur l'aile [du regret]⁴ mes esprits emportés,
-- Comme s'il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse ! --
Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés
       Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse.

Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur,
Refleurir en bouquet les roses deliées
Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu'en mon cœur,
       Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées !

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• G. Fauré • A. Flégier

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Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Les Ailes d’or : poésies nouvelles, 1878-1880, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, pages 117-118.

¹ Flégier: "avec"
² Fauré: "du torrent"
³ Fauré: "mélancolie"
⁴ Fauré: "des regrets"

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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Chanson d’automne", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 19, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, first published 1880 [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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Chanson d'automne", op. 19 no. 5, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Les Ailes d'Or, no. 5, St. Petersburg, Zimmermann, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Automne", op. 18 no. 3 (1878), published 1880 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Chant d'automne" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Automne", op. 52 no. 2 (1994), published 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Armand Silvestre, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev (1855 - 1927) ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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