Il pleure dans mon cœur | Il pleure dans mon cœur

Il pleure dans mon cœur

Language: French (Français)

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Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur ?

Ô bruit doux de la pluie,
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un cœur qui s'ennuie,
Ô le [chant]¹ de la pluie !

Il pleure sans raison
Dans [ce]² cœur qui s'écœure.
Quoi! nulle trahison ? ...
[Ce]³ deuil est sans raison.

C'est bien la pire peine,
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!

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¹ Debussy: "bruit"
² Fauré: "mon"; Madetoja: "le"
³ Fauré: "Mon"

Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Sens, Typographie de Maurice L'Hermite, first published 1874 [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 Victor-Sylvain Absalon (1886 - 1962), "Heure grise", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Buyst [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Anglebel (d. 1949), "Le chant de la pluie", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1914 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 3e série, no. 53, Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Charly Bailly (b. 1921), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", alternate title: "varel", [1946] [ voice and piano ], slow chant [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Baraquin (b. 1968), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Barthélemy (1869 - 1955), "Peines de cœur", [1906] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Beaucaire , "Le chant de la pluie", [1907], published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Beaumont (1866 - 1932), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Armand Bernaert (1888 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1920] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bernard , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hubert Bertrand , "Il pleure dans mon cœur ", [1973] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Boite (b. 1918) and by René Chavée , "Nostalgie", [1955] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Raymond Bonheur (1861 - 1939), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], three versions ; unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Bordes d'Anzy (b. 1905), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 23 no. 5, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept Poésies de Paul Verlaine = Sieben Gedichte von Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Leipzig, Milan: Éd. Elite No. 205 Edition D. Rahter (4408), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Marie-Rose Bresson , "Tristesse automnale", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Marchetti [sung text not yet checked]
by Marguerite Canal (1890 - 1978), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1941] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Victor-Charles Candillier (1907 - 1968), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1945] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Alden Carpenter (1876 - 1951), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Four Poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1, New York, Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
by André-Pierre Codou , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Suzanne Coquelin , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1910, published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Édouard Jouve [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Dagand , "Ariette", op. 101 no. 3 (<<1920) [ high voice and piano ], from Chants gothiques, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Darras (b. 1922), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1945] [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Rousselot [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", L. 63/(60) no. 2 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 2, Paris, Vve E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
by Valéry Delfolie , "Mélodie tchèque", published 1943 [ voice unaccompanied ], arrangement ; Paris, Chambéry ; in Trésor des plus belles mélodies de tous les pays [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1895, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Grus [sung text checked 1 time]
by Édouard Desmangles , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1939-41 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard-Léon-Stéphen Detraux (d. 1911), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrice Devanchy (1876 - 1942), as Louis Charles, "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1912 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Madeleine Dubois , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "La pluie", 1895 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Dussault , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1939] [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Dussault [sung text not yet checked]
by Sixten Eckerberg (1909 - 1991), "Nocturne", [1942] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Spleen", op. 51 no. 3 (1888), published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Deiss et Crépin [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard-Ernest Fillacier (d. 1935), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1918] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Rodolphe de Foras , "Il pleure", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Frings (1891 - 1965), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], Paris, Junne et fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduardo García Mansilla (1871 - 1930), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes, no. 2, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph-Pierre Gauthier, dit Claude Gauthier (b. 1939), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1960 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Gaveau (1891 - 1942), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by A. Getty , "Pluie !", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Giraud and by Jacques Mendel , "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", published [1959] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1902, published [1905] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Pauline Hall (1890 - 1969), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Herrmann (1896 - 1967), "Ariette", 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Sérénata, no. 3, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros , "O bruit doux", published 1967 [ vocal trio ], from Verlaine, no. 2, canon ; Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros , "O bruit doux", published 1967 [ voice, four-part chorus, guitar ], from Verlaine, no. 3, Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
by Jules-Ernest Hubert (d. 1951), "La pluie", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Les saisons et les heures, no. 17, Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Fernand-Raphaël Israël , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1906] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by T. Jousselin , "La pluie", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 22 (Quatre mélodies) no. 4, published 1900-1 [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Philippo [sung text checked 1 time]
by Josef Koffler (1896 - 1943), "Ariette oubliées", op. 22 (Quatre poèmes pour chant et piano) no. 2, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred André Simon Kullmann (1875 - 1963), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, 2ème série, no. 2, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
by Anatole Lancel (1850 - c1903), "Le chant de la pluie", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ondet [sung text not yet checked]
by Narcisse Prosper Zacharie Lavenant (1877 - 1946), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Moullé [sung text not yet checked]
by Madeleine Lemariey , "Chant de la pluie", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Édition Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by René Lenormand (1846 - 1932), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies tristes, no. 1, Paris, Durdilly [sung text not yet checked]
by Franck-Robert Lhomme , "Tristesse", 1933 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri-Marie Lincé, dit Hella (1886 - 1960), "Ariette", published 1950 [ voice and piano ], Paris, H. Lincé [sung text not yet checked]
by Dinu Lipatti (1917 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 9 no. 3 (1941), published 1985, from Cinq Mélodies sur des Poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 3, note: published in Romania as Cinci Lieduri pe Versuri de Verlaine, Bucarest, Editura muzicala [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Lluis , "Tristesse", 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri-Édouard-Joseph Logé (1854 - 1912), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1894] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Louvat , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ducrotois [sung text not yet checked]
by Arturo Luzzatti (1875 - 1959), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Office musical [sung text not yet checked]
by Leevi Antti Madetoja (1887 - 1947), "Romance sans paroles", op. 36 (1916), published 1916, first performed 1916 [ voice and piano ], Helsingfors, Fazer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Mancel, dit Charles Netley (1873 - 1956), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1925] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Suzanne-Marie Marinier , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Mathilde Martinon , "Chansons tristes III", published [1929] [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 4, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Mawet (1875 - 1947), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 1, Bruxelles, L. Mawet [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul de Meleingreau , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Lauwerijns [sung text not yet checked]
by Maria Mérina , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1905] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Lydie Michaïloff (1893 - 1979), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published <<1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Michel , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Il pleure dans mon cœur ", op. 53 no. 3 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 3, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrick Minette (b. 1962), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 2004 [ medium voice, piano, and contrabass ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Du Wast ; X. Gilles [sung text not yet checked]
by M. de Nevers , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Dupont [sung text not yet checked]
by Frits Noske (b. 1920), "Ariette", published 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Verlaine, no. 3, Amsterdam, Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucy Hamilton Paine , "Ariette", published [1909] [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Héctor (or Ettore) Panizza (1875 - 1967), "Ariettes oubliées", op. 24 no. 7, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], from Neuf poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 7, Milan, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Poirson , "Ariette", op. 1 no. 8, published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de poètes, no. 8, Paris, Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Quef (1873 - 1931), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Caen, Bonaventure [sung text not yet checked]
by Hendrik de Regt (b. 1950), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", op. 71a (1980), published 1981 [ baritone and piano ], from Trois chansons pour baryton et piano, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre-Jacob Robert-Cantabre , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, I, no. 4, Pau, Éd. Pierre Jacob Cantabre [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), as Jean Hubert, "Il pleut dans mon cœur", subtitle: "La Pluie", <<1904 [ high voice and piano ], from Les Saisons et les Heures, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Amsterdam, Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Sarly (1884 - ?), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published c1908 [ voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 4 (Trois mélodies) no. 2 (1895), published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
by Louis Schopfer (1867 - 1926), as Robert Alger, "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Ricordi (R. 938) [sung text not yet checked]
by Mark Simpson (b. 1988), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", first performed 2019 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leone Sinigaglia (1868 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 1 no. 4 (1894) [sung text not yet checked]
by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 2003 [ high voice and piano ], from Tableaux éternels, no. 2, Hensall, Ontario (Canada), Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Smulders (1863 - 1934), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1896, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Middleburg, A. A. Noske [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "La pluie", op. 32 (Cinq Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
by Roger Guy Steptoe (b. 1953), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", 2009, published 2009, first performed 2010 [ high voice, piano, viola ], from Three Paul Verlaine Songs, no. 2, Vuarmarens (Switzerland), Édition BIM [sung text not yet checked]
by Aimée Strohl (1865 - 1941), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1897] [ voice and piano ], as Rita Strohl [sung text not yet checked]
by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 5, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexandre Tariot (1867 - 1943), "La pluie", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by George Templeton-Strong (1856 - 1948), "Il pleure", 1931, published 1937 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois aquarelles pour chant et piano, no. 2, Genève, Éd. du Siècle Musical [sung text not yet checked]
by Théodore Terestchenko (b. 1888), "La pluie", published [1912] [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 6, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Tricot (b. 1926), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [ high voice and piano ], from Mathilde, 6 poèmes de P. Verlaine. , no. 4, from Mélodies, recueil 1, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard Van Cleef , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
by Alice Voisin , "Ariette oubliée", 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Victor Vreuls (1876 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1902, published 1905 [ voice and orchestra or piano ], from Triptyque, no. 1, Bruxelles, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Wauters (b. 1888), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Bosworth et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Sylvia Wisner , "Ariettes oubliées", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Wurmser (1877 - 1967), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
by Riccardo Zandonai (1883 - 1944), "Ariette", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Werther Zanolli , "La canzone della poggia", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Ariette", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Ariette", 1926, published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900) , no title, appears in Decorations, in After Paul Verlaine, no. 1, first published 1899 ; composed by Grigory Smirnov.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942) , "Regen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Romances sans Paroles, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., page 41, first published 1906 ; composed by Joseph Marx.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942) , "Regen" ; composed by Willy Czernik, Artur Immisch, Rudolf Mengelberg, Richard Trunk.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944) ; composed by Victor Vreuls.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Schilling (1910 - 1967) ; composed by Otto Erich Schilling.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952) , "Es weinet mein Herz" ; composed by Serge Bortkiewicz.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franz Dannehl.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Fyodor L'vovich Sollogub, Graf (1848 - 1890) ; composed by Ivan Ivanovich Kryzhanovsky.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 - 1924) ; composed by Semyon Viktorovich Panchenko.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation (M. A. ) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 3

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 84