't Avondt, ['t]1 avondt: trage en treurig
zinkt de zonne [nederwaard]2;
dwijnt het licht, en gaat er geurig
reukwerk uit [den roozengaard]3;
stille, en zonder ruit noch muit,
nijpt de nacht de dagkeerse uit.

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Spelling changes used by Mulder: nederwaard -> nederwaart ; roozengaard -> rozengaard
Spelling changes used by Simonart: roozengaard -> rozengaard
¹ Blomme: "het"
² Blomme: "nederwaarts"
³ Blomme: "den rozengaard"; King: "de rozen, de rozengaard"

Text Authorship:

• by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title [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 Lionel Blomme (1897 - 1984), "'t Avondt", 1949, orchestrated 1958 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jean-Paul Byloo (b. 1949), "'t Avondt" [ women's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "'t Avondt", 1906 [ chorus of 4 equal voices a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "'t Avondt", 1980 [ voice and piano or organ ], from Vier liederen op teksten van Guido Gezelle, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anna Catharina Lambrechts-Vos (1876 - 1932), "'t Avondt, 't avondt: trage en treurig", alternate title: "'t Avondt", op. 37 [ women's chorus a cappella ], from Van de zon : zes uitgezochte Kleengedichtjes van Guido Gezelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868 - 1952), "'t Avondt", 1901 [ medium voice and piano or string orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "'t Avondt" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gaston Simonart , "'t Avondt " [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lode Van Dessel (1909 - 1993), "'t Avondt, 't avond", published 1930 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Renaat Veremans (1894 - 1969), "'t Avondt", 1962 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Vijf koren op gedichten van Guido Gezelle [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-02
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Word count: 34