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by Delphine de Girardin (1804 - 1855)

Il m'aimait tant !
Language: French (Français) 
Non, je ne l'aimais pas ; mais de bonheur émue,
Ma sœur, je me sentais rougir en l‘écoutant ;
Je fuyais son regard, je tremblais à sa vue :
        Il m'aimait tant !

Je me parais pour lui, car je savais lui plaire ;
Pour lui, j'ai mis ces fleurs et ce voile flottant ;
Je ne parlais qu'à lui, je craignais sa colère :
        Il m'aimait tant !

Mais un soir il me dit : « Dans la sombre vallée
» Viendrez-vous avec moi? " Je le promis... pourtant,
En vain il m‘attendit ; je n’y suis pas allée...
        Il m'aimait tant !

Alors il a quitté ma joyeuse demeure.
Malheureux! il a dû me maudire en partant ;
Je ne le verrai plus ! je suis triste, je pleure :
        Il m'aimait tant !

Confirmed with Poésies complètes / Madame Emile de Girardin (Delphine Gay) Librairie nouvelle (Paris), 1856, page 349


Text Authorship:

  • by Delphine de Girardin (1804 - 1855), "Il m'aimait tant!", subtitle: "Romance" [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 Henry E. Blount (d. 1911), "Il m'aimait tant", subtitle: "Romance", <<1868 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Diémer (1843 - 1919), "Il m'aimait tant", published 1872? [ soprano and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Duchambge (1778 - 1858), "Il m'aimait tant !", published 1839? [ voice and piano ], from Album lyrique : douze romances et chansonettes, no. 4, Paris : J. Meissonnier [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Il m'aimait tant !", S. 271 (1840-1843), published 1843 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], in L'Aurore, collection de morceaux de chant avec accompagnement de piano, Schott, 1843, no 51, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835 - 1911), "Il m'aimait tant !" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 2ème recueil, no. 13, Gand (Belgique), Éd. V. et Ch. Gévaert, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Theobald Rehbaum (1835 - 1918) and by M. G. Friedrich ; composed by Franz Liszt.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Fanny Guillaume ; composed by Jean-Théodore Radoux.
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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893) ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Research team for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 121

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