L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée

L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière...

Language: French (Français)

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L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée
  Meurt comme de la fumée,
Tandis qu'en l'air, parmi les ramures réelles,
  Se plaignent les tourterelles.

Combien, ô voyageur, ce paysage blême
  Te mira blême toi-même,
Et que tristes pleuraient dans les hautes feuillées, -
  Tes espérances noyées.

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Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 9, first published 1872 [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 Guido Bianchini (1885 - 1971), "Paysage triste", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Rosalie-Maude Bowlby (1886 - ?), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", [1942] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre Carolus-Duran (1876 - 1945), "Angoisse", 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Impressions, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Coquereaux , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six pièces pour piano et chant, no. 5, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "L'ombre des arbres", L. 63/(60) no. 3 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Paris, Vve E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
by André Dulaurens (1873 - 1932), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée" [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Simone Féjard (1911 - 2012), "Paysage triste", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Rodolphe de Foras , "Espérance noyées", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Guller (b. 1886), "Paysage" [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Bruxelles (Brussels), Édition Fernand Lauweryns [sung text not yet checked]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Paysage triste", 1888, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 6, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Lucien Legras , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published [1954] [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Legras [sung text not yet checked]
by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Guillemette Marrannes (b. 1954), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", 1999 [ high voice and piano ], from Sensation, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling , "L’ombre des arbres", op. 53 no. 6 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Paysage triste", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies et poèmes, no. 10, London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "L'ombre des arbres", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Paysage", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Girard [sung text not yet checked]
by Renée Philippart-Gonzalez , "Reflet", 1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880 - 1932), "Brume", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
by Ladislas Rohozinski (1886 - 1938), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Lazare Saminsky (1882 - 1959), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 5 no. 5, published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle Verlaine, no. 5, Moscow ; later published Paris, Sénart 1927 ; also in Russian and German [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustave Sandré (1843 - 1916), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 56 no. 1, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Paysage triste", op. 31 (Sept Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 6, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Sturzenegger (1905 - 1976), "Prélude", 1928 [ bass and violoncello ], from Suite, no. 1, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Édith Sutter , "Ariette oubliée", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], Paris, E. Sutter [sung text not yet checked]

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. 9

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45