by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
C'est l'extase langoureuse
Language: French (Français)
C'est l'extase langoureuse, C'est la fatigue amoureuse, C'est tous les frissons des bois Parmi l'étreinte des brises, C'est vers les ramures grises Le choeur des petites voix. O le frêle et frais murmure ! Cela gazouille et susurre, Cela ressemble au [cri]1 doux Que l'herbe agitée expire... Tu dirais, sous l'eau qui vire, Le roulis sourd des cailloux. Cette âme qui se lamente [En]2 cette plainte dormante C'est la nôtre, n'est-ce pas ? La mienne, dis, et la tienne, Dont s'exhale l'humble antienne Par ce tiède soir, tout bas ?
C. Saint-Saëns sets stanzas 1-2
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Fauré: "bruit"
2 Fauré: "Et"
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 1, 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 Louis Abbiate (1866 - 1933), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published [1899] [ high voice and piano ], from Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 10, Paris, Édition Lucien Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Bonheur (1861 - 1939), "C'est l'extase langoureuse" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marie-Rose Bresson , "C'est l'extase langoureuse", 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "C'est l'extase", L. 63/(60) no. 1 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 1, Paris, Vve. E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fidès Devriès (1852 - 1941?), "Ariettes oubliées", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond Diet (1854 - 1924), "Extase", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Dulaurens (1873 - 1932), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", op. 16 no. 4, published 1912? [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies sur des Poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 4, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle &é Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "C'est l'extase", op. 58 no. 5 (1891), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies "de Venise", no. 5, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Évette et Schaeffer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Soir d'été", published 1895 [ vocal duet with piano? ], Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduardo García Mansilla (1871 - 1930), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons pour chant et piano, no. 8, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1903 [ reciter and piano ], from Two Verlaine Moods, no. 2, Newton Center, Massachusetts, Wa-Wan Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rodolphe-Adolphe-Joseph Herrmann (1875 - 1964), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 9, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis-Joseph Keyzer (b. 1877), "Ariette", published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durdilly [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "C'est l'Extase Langoureuse...", op. 77 (6 Mélodies) no. 5, copyright © 1915 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred André Simon Kullmann (1875 - 1963), "Extase", <<1917 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies - 1ère série, no. 6, Paris, Éd. L. Grus & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1898 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies de Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Demets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Ladmirault (1877 - 1944), "C'est l'extase", 1899, published 1899 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour voix et piano, no. 3, Paris, E. Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Suzanne Lippmann (d. 1938), "C'est l'extase langoureuse" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri-Édouard-Joseph Logé (1854 - 1912), "L'extase langoureuse", published [1894] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michel-Francou , "C'est l'extase langoureuse" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "C'est l'extase langoureuse ", op. 53 no. 1 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "C'est l'extase langoureuse", 1971/1972 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Barcarolle", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Girard [sung text not yet checked]
- by M. de Nevers , "Extase langoureuse", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Énoch [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Poirier , "C'est l'extase langoureuse", [1946] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Ariette oubliée", 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Geneviève Rouzaud , "C'est l'extase langoureuse", [1939] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Le vent dans la plaine", 1912, published 1913, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pierre Salet (1875 - 1936), "Première romance sans paroles", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Deux Romances sans paroles, no. 1, Paris, Prioré [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Extase", op. 32 (Cinq Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 2, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "C'est l'extase langoureuse", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Bouwens van der Boijen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ange de Trabadelo (1856 - 1930), "Extase langoureuse", 1898 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Yrjö Vilhelm Kaijärvi (1896 - 1971) ; composed by Pauliina Isomäki.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Evers (1871 - 1947) , "Klagen im Wind" ; composed by Richard Trunk.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan George (1868 - 1933) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 1 ; composed by Winfried Zillig.
Other 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
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "It is the langorous ecstasy", copyright ©
- GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Es ist die verführerische Verzückung", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mónica Luz Alvarez Jiménez) , no title, copyright © 2012, (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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