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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Le ciel d'hiver, si doux, si triste, si...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG GER HUN ITA SPA
Le ciel d'hiver, si doux, si triste, si dormant,
Où le soleil errait parmi [des]1 vapeurs blanches,
Était pareil au doux, au profond sentiment
Qui nous rendait heureux mélancoliquement
Par [cette après-midi de rêves]2 sous les branches...

Branches mortes qu'aucun souffle ne remuait,
Branches noires [avec]3 quelque feuille fanée,
-- Ah! que [mon âme s'est à ton âme]4 donnée
Plus tendrement [encor]5 dans ce grand bois muet,
Et dans cette langueur de la mort de l'année !

La mort de tout, sinon de toi que j'aime tant,
Et sinon du bonheur dont mon âme est comblée,
Bonheur qui dort au fond de cette âme isolée,
Mystérieux, paisible et frais comme l'étang
Qui pâlissait au fond de la pâle vallée.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Debussy •   C. Widor 

C. Widor sets stanzas 1-2

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Paul Bourget: Poésies 1876-1882. Edel. Les Aveux, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1885, pages 137-138.

1 Widor: "les"
2 Debussy: "cet après-midi de baisers"
3 Widor: "portant"
4 Debussy: "ta bouche s'est à ma bouche"
5 Debussy: "encore"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Paysage sentimental", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 11, 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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Paysage sentimental", L. 55/(45) (1883), published 1902 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Le ciel d'hiver", op. 75 no. 12, published 1902, stanzas 1-2 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons de Mer, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Sentimental landscape", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Seelengefilde", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Dániel Csűry) , "Érzelmes tájkép", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Paesaggio sentimentale", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Mónica Luz Alvarez Jiménez) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 122

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