Nuit blanche | Cette nuit, tu prendras soin que dans chaque vase

by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900)

Nuit blanche

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Cette nuit, tu prendras soin que dans chaque vase
Frissonne, humide encore, une gerbe de fleurs.
Nul flambeau dans la chambre - où tes chères pâleurs
Se noieront comme un rêve en des vapeurs de gaze.

Pour respirer tous nos bonheurs avec emphase,
Sur le piano triste, où trembleront des pleurs,
Tes mains feront chanter d'angéliques douleurs
Et je t'écouterai, silencieux d'extase.

Tels nous nous aimerons, sévères et muets.
Seul, un baiser parfois sur tes ongles fluets
Sera la goutte d'eau qui déborde des urnes,

O Soeur ! et dans le ciel de notre pureté
Le virginal Désir des amours taciturnes
Montera lentement comme un astre argenté.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), "Nuit blanche", written 1893, appears in Au jardin de l'Infante, 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 Georges Antoine (1892 - 1918), "Nuit blanche", op. 5 no. 3, published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Album de six mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by René-Emmanuel Baton (1879 - 1940), as Rhené-Baton, "Nuit blanche", op. 18 (Deux Mélodies) no. 1 (1911), published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Nuit blanche", published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Évocations, 4 poèmes d'A. Samain, no. 4, Paris, Éd. L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Aloys Claussmann (1850 - 1926), "Nuit blanche", op. 57 (Quatre mélodies) no. 2, published [1913] [ high voice and piano ], Clermont-Ferrand, Éditions Charles Perretière [sung text not yet checked]
by Marc Delmas (1885 - 1931), "Nuit blanche", 1921, published 1921 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Nuit blanche", 1911, published 1914 [ high voice and piano ], from Au Jardin de l'Infante, no. 1, Heugel et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Désiré Émile Inghelbrecht (1880 - 1965), "Nuit blanche", 1908, published 1911, first performed 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Au Jardin de L'Infante, no. 2, Éd. Albert Zunz Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Nuit Blanche", op. 77 (6 Mélodies) no. 3, copyright © 1915 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Maurice Touchard (1879 - 1956), "Nuit blanche", 1921, published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2013-10-18
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Word count: 105