by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941)
Si je ne t'aimais pas, la mer serait...
Language: French (Français)
Si je ne t'aimais pas, la mer serait moins belle, Chère absente, et mon cœur, ivre d'immensité, N'entendrait pas la voix des astres qui m'appelle Si tu n'étais à mon côté. Si je ne l'aimais pas, la nuit serait moins blonde, Chère absente, et c'est toi qui lui fais sa clarté, Mais je ne verrais rien de la nuit ni du monde Si tu marchais à mon côté.
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Confirmed with Edmond Haraucourt, Seul, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, page 145.
Text Authorship:
- by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Romance", written 1891, appears in Seul, in 2. L'adoration, no. 54, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1891 [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 Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Si je ne t'aimais pas", 1893 [ high voice and piano ], from Solitudes, 15 poèmes de E. Haraucourt, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Si je ne t'aimais pas", published 1908 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 2ème volume, no. 18, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel de Saint-Quentin (1846 - 1926), "Adoration" [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies célèbres, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Si je ne t'aimais pas", 1904 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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