by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière...
Language: French (Français)
L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée Meurt comme de la fumée, Tandis qu'en l'air, parmi les ramures réelles, Se [plaignent]1 les tourterelles. Combien, ô voyageur, ce paysage blême Te mira blême toi-même, Et que tristes pleuraient dans les hautes feuillées, - Tes espérances noyées.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 9, first published 1872 [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 Guido Bianchini (1885 - 1971), "Paysage triste", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rosalie-Maude Bowlby (1886 - ?), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", [1942] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre Carolus-Duran (1876 - 1945), "Angoisse", 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Impressions, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Coquereaux , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six pièces pour piano et chant, no. 5, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "L'ombre des arbres", L. 63/(60) no. 3 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Paris, Vve E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Dulaurens (1873 - 1932), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée" [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Simone Féjard (1911 - 2012), "Paysage triste", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rodolphe de Foras , "Espérance noyées", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Guller (b. 1886), "Paysage" [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Bruxelles (Brussels), Édition Fernand Lauweryns [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Paysage triste", 1888, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 6, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucien Legras , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published [1954] [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Legras [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guillemette Marrannes (b. 1954), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", 1999 [ high voice and piano ], from Sensation, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "L’ombre des arbres", op. 53 no. 6 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Paysage triste", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies et poèmes, no. 10, London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "L'ombre des arbres", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Paysage", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Girard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Renée Philippart-Gonzalez (1905 - 1993), "Reflet", 1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Brume", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Radoux Rogier (1877 - 1952), "L'ombre des arbres" [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. Schott Frères [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ladislas Rohozinski (1886 - 1938), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lazare Saminsky (1882 - 1959), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 5 no. 5, published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle Verlaine, no. 5, Moscow ; later published Paris, Sénart 1927 ; also in Russian and German [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustave Sandré (1843 - 1916), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 56 no. 1, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Paysage triste", op. 31 (Sept Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 6, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Sturzenegger (1905 - 1976), "Prélude", 1928 [ bass and violoncello ], from Suite, no. 1, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édith Sutter , "Ariette oubliée", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], Paris, E. Sutter [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The shadow of the trees in the misty river", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Bäume Schatten", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 9
- GER German (Deutsch) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 44