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by Charles-Simon Favart (1710 - 1792)

Menuet d'Exaudet
Language: French (Français) 
Cet étang
Qui s’étend
Dans la plaine,
Répète, au sein de ses eaux,
Les verdoyants ormeaux
Où le pampre s’enchaine;

Un ciel pur,
Un azur
Sans nuages
Vivement s’y réfléchit,
Le tableau s’enrichit
D’images.
	Mais tandis que l’on admire
	Cette onde où le ciel se mire,

Un zephyr
Vient ternir
Sa surface;
D’un souffle il confond les traits;
Léclat de tant d’objets
S'efface.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles-Simon Favart (1710 - 1792), written 1769?, appears in La Rosière de Salenci, comédie en trois actes, Paris, Éd. Veuve Duchesne, first published 1772 [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 Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "Menuet d'Exaudet", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bergerettes, Romances et chansons du XVIIIè siècle harmonisées par J.B. Weckerlin, no. 3, Schirmer ; based on a melody by Exaudet from one of six sonatas op 2 (1751) [sung text checked 1 time]

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