by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)
Peine d'amour
Language: French (Français)
Quand ta main tomba dans ma main, Je n'osai la presser qu'à peine: Je ne sais queldoute inhumain Faisait déjà trembler la mienne. Quand ton front se pencha vers moi, A peine j'y posai ma bouche: Je ne sais quel cruel émoi Me rendait timide et farouche. Ah! je sentais que désormais La douleur entrait dans ma vie Et je n'ai su que je t'aimais Qu'au jour où tu me fus ravie!
Text Authorship:
- by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Peine d'amour", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 12, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, first published 1880 [author's text not yet checked 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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Peine d'amour", op. 19 no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Les Ailes d'Or, no. 2, St. Petersburg, Zimmermann, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frédéric d'Erlanger, Baron (1868 - 1943), "Peine d'amour", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Six Songs, no. 4, London: Willcocks & Co., also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Peine d'amour", 1892, published 1892 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Baudoux [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Peine d'amour" [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1er volume, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Francis Charles Philips (1849 - 1921) ; composed by Frédéric d'Erlanger, Baron.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev (1855 - 1927) ; composed by Jules Bleichmann.
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Word count: 72