Demain, dès l'aube | Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où...

Language: French (Français)

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Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m'attends.
J'irai par la forêt, j'irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.

Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées,
Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit,
Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées,
Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit.

Je ne regarderai ni l'or du soir qui tombe,
Ni les voiles au loin descendant vers Harfleur,
Et quand j'arriverai, je mettrai sur ta tombe
Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur.

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Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1847, appears in Les Contemplations, in 4. Livre quatrième -- Pauca Meae, no. 14 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Demain, dès l'aube", 2006 [ bass-baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Madeleine Bloy-Souberbielle (1897 - 1990), "Demain dès l'aube", 1948, published 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, no. 1, Sampzon, Éd. Delatour [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolphe Borchard (1882 - 1967), "Pèlerinage", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Philippe Dartois , "Demain dès l'aube", 2023 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Philippe Dartois , "À l'heure où blanchit la campagne", 2023 [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Garbet (d. 1905), "Demain, dès l'aube", published 1877-1878 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique, no. 77 [sung text not yet checked]
by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Le départ ", op. 4 no. 29 [ voice and piano ], from 30 morceaux de chant, no. 29, Éd. Durand, Schoenewerck & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Nicolas Hussein (b. 1987), "Demain, dès l'aube", op. 2 (4 mélodies pour voix moyenne et piano) no. 2, published 2017, first performed 2015 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. In Nomine [sung text not yet checked]
by Alain Lecompte (b. 1954), "Demain, dès l'aube", 2001 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jeanne Lefèvre , "Demain, dès l'aube", published [1921] [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Mélodies, no. 3, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by François Léveillée (b. 1952), "Demain, dès l'aube", 1979 [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Demain, dès l'aube", op. 312 no. 6 (2020) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder nach Victor Hugo, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Vincent Minazzoli (b. 1960), "Demain dès l'aube (à l'heure où blanchit la campagne)", 2021, first performed 2022 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Neymarck (1889 - 1913), "Demain dès l'aube", published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, poésies de Victor Hugo, no. 3, Paris, Éd. L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "Demain", published 2009 [ soprano and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 2, Hensall, Ontario (Canada), Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Torrent (b. 1944), "Demain, dès l'aube", 2021 [ mezzo-soprano, piano, cello ] [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-20
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