Hier | Hier, c'est ce chapeau fané

sometimes misattributed to Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Louise Lalanne and by Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956)

Hier

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Hier, c'est ce chapeau fané
Que j'ai longtemps traîné.
Hier, c'est une pauvre robe
Qui n'est plus à la mode.
Hier, c'était le beau couvent
Si vide maintenant
Et la rose mélancolie
Des cours de jeune fille.
Hier, c'est mon cœur mal donné.
Une autre, une autre année !
Hier n'est plus ce soir qu'une ombre
Près de moi dans ma chambre.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• F. Poulenc

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Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Louise Lalanne
by Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956), "Hier", written 1909, appears in Il y a, in Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Hier", 1940 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Hier", FP 57 no. 3 (1931) [ high voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Lucie Vellère (1896 - 1966), "Hier", 1957, published 1975 [ soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone ], from Trois poèmes d'Apollinaire, no. 3, Brussels : CeBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 61