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L'allée est sans fin Sous le ciel, divin D'être pâle ainsi : Sais-tu qu'on serait Bien sous le secret De ces arbres-ci ? Des messieurs bien mis, Sans nul doute amis Des Royers-Collards : Vont vers le château. J'estimerais beau D'être ces vieillards. Le château, tout blanc Avec, à son flanc, Le soleil couché, Les champs à l'entour... Oh ! que notre amour N'est-il là niché !
R. Hahn sets stanzas 1, 3
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Paysages belges, in 3. Bruxelles, in Simples fresques, no. 2 [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 Théotiste-Catule-Jérôme Carlin (1903 - 1952), "L'allée est sans fin", published 1943 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Théo-Carlin [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marc Delmas (1885 - 1931), "L'allée est sans fin", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Bellon et Ponscarme [sung text not yet checked]
- by René Esclavy (d. 1927), "Si notre amour", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "L'allée est sans fin", 1892, published 1893, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 3, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucien Mawet (1875 - 1947), "Paysage belge", published 1930 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Buffet-Crampon [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "L'allée est sans fin", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies et poèmes, no. 11, London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "L'Allée est sans fin" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "L'allée est sans fin", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "L'allée est sans fin", published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Girard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger (1876 - 1941), "L'allée est sans fin", 1911 [ soprano and piano ], from Lieder nach Texten von Samain und Verlaine, no. 4, unpublished ; MS Bibliothèque centrale, Zurich [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 62
The avenue is endless under the sky, divine by being pale like this: it would feel really good, you know, to be under the secret of these trees. Some well-dressed gentlemen, undoubtedly friends of the Royer-Collards, are heading towards the château: I would deem it splendid if we were those old men. There's the château, all white with the sunset glow on its flank, and fields all around: oh, if only our love had its nest there!
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- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Paysages belges, in 3. Bruxelles, in Simples fresques, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2021-03-12
Line count: 18
Word count: 77