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by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs

Chant funèbre
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Chantez un chant funèbre, muses Mytiléniennes, chantez!  
La terre est sombre comme un vêtement de deuil 
et les arbres jaunes frissonnent comme des chevelures coupées.

Héraïos! ô mois triste et doux! les feuilles tombent
doucement comme la neige; 
le soleil est plus pénétrant 
dans la forêt éclaircie... 
Je n'entends plus rien que le silence.

Voici qu'on a porté au tombeau Pittakos chargé d'années.
Beaucoup sont morts, que j'ai connus. Et celle qui vit 
est pour moi comme si elle n'etait plus.

Celui-ci est le dixième automne 
que j'ai vu mourir sur cette plaine.
Il est temps aussi que je disparaisse. 
Pleurez avec moi, muses Mytiléniennes, pleurez sur mes pas!!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Koechlin 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "Chant funèbre", written 1894, appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Élégies à Mytilène, no. 98, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897 [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 André-Marie Cuvelier , "Chant funèbre", 1935 [high voice and piano], from Chansons de Bilitis, 3ème recueil, no. 3. [ sung text not verified ]
  • by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Chant funèbre", op. 39 no. 3 (1906-08), published 1923 [medium voice and piano], from Chansons de Bilitis, no. 3, Éditions Maurice Senart [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Sarah Daughtrey) , title 1: "Funeral song", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Grabgesang", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sarah Daughtrey

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 112

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