Zanetto, chantant dans le lointain
Mignonne, voici l'Avril !
Le soleil revient d'exil ;
Tous le nids sont en querelles;
L'air est pur, le ciel léger,
Et partout on voit neiger
Des plumes de tourterelles.

Prends, pour que nous nous trouvions,
Le chemin des papillons
Et des frêles demoiselles;
Viens, car tu sais qu'on t'attend
Sous le bois, près de l'étang
Où vont boire les gazelles !

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J. Massenet sets stanza 2 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information

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Text Authorship:

• by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), no title, appears in Le Passant, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870 [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 Amédée Artus (1815 - 1892), "Le passant", published [1870] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Le Bailly [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Bonnet , "Sérénade du passant", published c1880 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies pour chant et piano, 1er volume, no. 2, Éd. E. et A. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
• by Émile Bourgeois (1849 - 1922), "Voici l'Avril" [ high voice and piano and violin or mandolin ad libitum ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Éd. H. Tellier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Chanson d'avril", subtitle: "Sérénade du passant", CG 357 (1872), published [1872] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Henry Lemoine, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Władysław Edward Kronenberg (1848 - 1892), as Ladislas Wieniec, "Sérénade", op. 34 (<<1879) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by J. M. de Lalanne , "Sérénade du passant", published [1869] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Le Corbeiller (1821 - 1894), "Voici l'Avril !", published [1870] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. A. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Sérénade du Passant", alternate title: "Sérénade de Zanetto", 1869, published 1869 [ voice and piano ]
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• Also set in English, a translation by Horace Smith [an adaptation] ; composed by Charles Gounod.
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• Also set in English, a translation by J. A. Middleton ; composed by Teresa del Riego.
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• ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 64