by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval
Avril
Language: French (Français)
Déjà les beaux jours, - la poussière, Un ciel d'azur et de lumière, Les murs enflammés, les longs soirs; - Et rien de vert: - à peine encore Un reflet rougeâtre décore Les grands arbres aux rameaux noirs! Ce beau temps me pèse et m'ennuie. - Ce n'est qu'après des jours de pluie Que doit surgir, en un tableau, Le printemps verdissant et rose, Comme une nymphe fraîche éclose, Qui, souriante, sort de l'eau.
Text Authorship:
- by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval [author's text not yet checked 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 Auric (1899 - 1983), "Avril", 1925, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Gérard de Nerval, no. 4, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "四月", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "April", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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