by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)
Beau soir
Language: French (Français)
Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses, Et qu'un tiède frisson court sur les champs de blé, Un conseil d'être heureux semble sortir des choses Et monter vers le cœur troublé ; Un conseil de goûter le charme d'être au monde, Cependant qu'on est jeune et que le soir est beau, Car nous nous en allons comme s'en va cette onde : Elle à la mer, -- nous au tombeau !
Authorship
- by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Beau soir", written 1881, appears in Les aveux, in Dilettantisme, in Souvenirs du Nord, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882 [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 Gaston Carraud (1864 - 1920), "Beau soir" [high voice and piano], from Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éditions H. Tellier [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Beau soir", L. 84/(6) (1880), published 1891. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Kaufer (1909 - 1990), "Beau soir", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Dover Beach and Other Songs, no. 4, Waukegan, Illinois: Lyric-Art; English version by G. Chapman (copyright renewed, 1939 by G. Shirmer) [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Fair evening", copyright © 2016
- GER German (Deutsch) (Michael Rapke) , "Schönen Abend", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Sera incantevole", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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