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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Musique
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  DUT ENG
La lune se levait, pure, mais plus glacée
Que le ressouvenir de [quelque amour]1 passée.
Les étoiles, au fond du ciel silencieux,
Brillaient, mais d'un éclat changeant, comme des yeux
Où flotte une pensée insaisissable à l'âme.
Et le violon, tendre et doux, comme une femme
Dont la voix s'affaiblit dans l'ardente langueur,
Chantait: » Encore un soir perdu pour le bonheur. «

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Debussy 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Debussy: "quelqu'amour"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Musique", appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 31 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Musique", L. 54/(44) (1883) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Musique", op. 341 (Vier Lieder nach Paul Bourget) no. 1 (2022) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Hudba", first published 1893
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , "Muziek", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Music", copyright © 2017


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-05
Line count: 8
Word count: 64

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