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Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre, Qu'allez-vous faire [Si loin d'ici]1 ? Voyez-vous pas que la nuit est profonde, Et que le monde N'est que souci ? Vous qui croyez qu'une amour délaissée De la pensée S'enfuit ainsi, Hélas ! hélas ! chercheurs de renommée, Votre fumée S'envole aussi. [Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre, Qu'allez-vous faire Si loin de nous ?]2 J'en vais pleurer, moi qui me laissais dire Que mon sourire Était si doux.
V. Massé sets stanzas 1, 3
F. Schmitt sets stanzas 1, 3
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Alfred de Musset, Poésies nouvelles (1836-1852), Paris, Charpentier, 1857, page 141.
First published in La Quenouille de Barberine, a comedy in two acts, Éd. La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1835.
1 Koster: "Si loin d'ici de nous"; Schmitt: "Aussi loin d'ici ? loin de nous"2 omitted by Schmitt.
Text Authorship:
- by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson de Barberine", written 1835, appears in Poésies nouvelles, appears in La Quenouille de Barberine, comédie en 2 actes [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 Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909), "Chanson de Barberine", 1889 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by José André (1881 - 1944), "Chanson de Barberine", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies et chansons, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gilbert Beaume (1888 - 1967), "Ballade", 1912, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Édition Gilbert Beaume [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Bonnal Ermend (1881 - 1944), "Chanson de Barberine" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colin Brumby (b. 1933), "Chanson de Barberine" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Chanson de Barberine", 1941 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Chanson de Barberine", subtitle: "Sur le thème de la gavotte de la 'Suite anglaise n°3' de J.S. Bach", 1925, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from 1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach, no. 1, Éd. G. Ricordi & C. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Chanson de Barberine", published 1884 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 2, no. 15, Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by André-Marie Cuvelier , "La chanson de Barberine", 1941 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons pour Hélène, 8ème recueil, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Chanson de Barberine", 1861, published [1882] [ mezzo-soprano and piano or harp ], Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Abraham Dukas (1865 - 1935), "Chanson de Barberine", 1884 [ soprano and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul d'Estribaud (1828 - 1911), "Chanson de Barberine", <<1853 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Meissonnier fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paulo Florence (1864 - 1949), "Chanson de Barberine" [ voice and piano ], from Três canções francesas, no. 1, Rio de Janeiro: Bevilacqua [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Henri Boyer de Fonscolombe, Baron de la Môle (1838 - 1907), "La chanson de Barberine", published [1870] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Sylvain St Étienne, ancienne Maison Aulagnier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor-Léon Gallois (1880 - 1941), "Chanson de Barberine", published 1908 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "Chanson de Barberine", op. 9 (Deux Mélodies) no. 2 (1914), published 1917 [ high voice and piano ], London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olivier Greif (1950 - 2000), "La chanson de Barberine", 2000, from 3 Settings of Musset [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles-Léon Hess (1844 - 1926), "Chanson de Barberine", published 1878-1879 [ soprano and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lou Koster (1889 - 1973), "Chanson de Barberine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Chanson de Barberine" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "Chanson de Barberine", 1870 [ contralto and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Loret (1837 - 1870), "Chanson de Barberine", published [1868] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "La chanson de Barberine", stanzas 1,3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean-Louis Petit (b. 1937), "Chanson de Barberine", 1997 [ high voice and piano ], from Livre de poésies, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond de Polignac, prince (1834 - 1901), "Chanson de Barberine", 1901?, published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ], in the musical supplement to the journal Figaro, May 18, 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Pollonnais (d. 1932), "Chanson de Barberine", <<1909 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. O. Bouwens van der Boijen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Chanson de Barberine", 1868?, published [1879] [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano - 2ième receuil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Richault & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by C. Renvoisé , "Chanson de Barberine", <<1911 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Chanson de Barberine", op. 83 (Zehn Lieder aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und Englischen übersetzt von N. Roda und A. v. Winterfeld für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3 [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel de Saint-Quentin (1846 - 1926), "Ballade de Barberine" [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies célèbres, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
- by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Martiale", op. 39 no. 6 (1905), published 1909, stanzas 1,3 [ SATB quartet and orchestra or piano ], from Chansons à 4 voix, no. 6, Paris: A.Z. Mathot [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Poll da Silva , "La chanson de Barberine", published 1881-1882 [ high voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Étienne Soubre (1813 - 1871), "Chanson de Barberine", 1853 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Goring Thomas (1850 - 1892), "Chanson de Barberine", published [1883] [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 12, London, Metzler & Co. Limited, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Chanson de Barberine", 1899, published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by William Money Hardinge (1854 - 1916) ; composed by Arthur Goring Thomas.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld (1824 - 1888) and possibly by N. Roda ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Victoria de Menil) , "Handsome knight, you who leave for war", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 74
Handsome knight, you who leave for war What will you do far from here? Do you see that the night is deep? And that the world is but worry? You who think that love Abandoned by thought flees like that. Alas! Alas! Seekers of fame Your smoke flies away too! Hansome knight, you who leave for war What will you do far from us? It will make me cry. I who thought That my smile was so sweet!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson de Barberine", written 1835, appears in Poésies nouvelles, appears in La Quenouille de Barberine, comédie en 2 actes
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 78