Avant que tu ne t'en ailles | Avant que tu ne t'en ailles

Avant que tu ne t'en ailles

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG

Avant que tu ne t'en ailles,
Pâle étoile du matin
-- Mille cailles
Chantent, chantent dans le thym. --

Tourne devers le poète
Dont les yeux sont pleins d'amour ;
-- L'alouette
Monte au ciel avec le jour. --

Tourne ton regard que noie
L'aurore dans son azur ;
-- Quelle joie
Parmi les champs de blé mûr! --

[Puis]¹ fais luire ma pensée
Là-bas -- bien loin, oh, bien loin !
-- La rosée
Gaîment brille sur le foin. --

Dans le doux rêve où s'agite
Ma [mie]² endormie encor...
-- Vite, vite,
Car voici le soleil d'or. --

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¹ Fauré: "Et"
² Fauré: "vie"

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 5, first published 1870 [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 Madeleine-M.-L. Boutron , "Chanson 11", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1919, published 1932 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", op. 61 no. 6, published 1892-3 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 6, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by Rodolphe-Adolphe-Joseph Herrmann (1875 - 1964), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 13, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Jean-Baptiste (b. 1934), "Étoile du matin", published 1967 [ vocal trio ], from Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Jelmoli (1877 - 1936), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles pâle étoile" [ soprano and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", op. 69 no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
by Lou Koster (1889 - 1973), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1935?, published [1955] [ medium voice and piano ], from 5 Mélodies [later 6 mélodies], no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Pâle étoile du matin", published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gounon-Ghidoué [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles-Hilaire Laurent (1877 - 1941), "Aubade", <<1909 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Siéver [sung text not yet checked]
by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Aristide-Gilbert Martz, dit Gil d'Azil (1879 - 1942), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles ", op. 57 no. 6 (1995), published 2001 [ SATT chorus ], from Sieben Chansons zu vier Stimmen nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Jeanne Minsmer (1887 - 1957), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
by Hyppolyte Mirande (b. 1862), "Chanson d'aurore", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Quinze poèmes mis en musique, no. 8, Lyon [sung text not yet checked]
by René Mottart , "Pâle étoile du matin", [1898] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1936, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Rongier , "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Étoile du matin ", op. 31 (Sept Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 7, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Édith Sutter , "La bonne chanson", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], Paris, E. Sutter [sung text not yet checked]

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

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"

Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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