Chanson d’automne | Automne | Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons...

Language: French (Français)

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Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants,
Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies,
Je regarde couler, comme l'eau des torrents,
       Tes jours faits de mélancolies.

Sur l'aile du regret mes esprits emportés,
-- Comme s'il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse ! --
Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés
       Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse.

Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur,
Refleurir en bouquet les roses deliées
Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu'en mon cœur,
       Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées !

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Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Les Ailes d’or : poésies nouvelles, 1878-1880, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, pages 117-118.

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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Chanson d’automne", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 19, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, first published 1880 [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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Chanson d'automne", op. 19 no. 5, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Les Ailes d'Or, no. 5, St. Petersburg, Zimmermann, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Automne", op. 18 no. 3 (1878), published 1880 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Chant d'automne" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Automne", op. 52 no. 2 (1994), published 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Armand Silvestre, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev (1855 - 1927) ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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