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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 33-34. Note: All the ampersands (&) that appeared in the first publication were changed to "et".

Note: first appeared in La Gazette rimée, February 20, 1867, under the title "Trumeau", and then in Fêtes galantes, Paris, éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, under the title "Mandoline".

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Francis de Bourguignon (1890 - 1961), "Mandoline", op. 27, published 1928 [ soprano and piano ], Bruxelles, CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
• by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Mandoline", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Énoch [sung text not yet checked]
• by Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881 - 1971), "Fêtes galantes", 1932 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gérard Condé (b. 1947), "Mandoline", 1973, published 2001 [ reciter and piano ], from Fêtes galantes, récitation accompagnée au piano, no. 3, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Cornet (d. 1946), as Charles Tenroc, "Mandoline", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart, Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Mandoline", L. 43/(29) (1881-2), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand et Schœnewerk [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921), "Mandoline", 1909, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Alsbach & Co [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Mandoline", 1901, published 1901 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Mandoline", op. 58 no. 1 (1891), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies "de Venise", no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Mandoline", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Fournier (1853 - 1935), "Mandoline", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Mandoline" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Fêtes galantes", 1892, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 11, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Mandoline", published 1906-10 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Gant, Oscar Berte [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Mandoline", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies de Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Paris, Demets [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984), "Mandoline", 1904, published 1911, orchestrated 1912 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1, Le Flem, P. Édition Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lucien Marié , "Mandoline", subtitle: "À la chanson parisienne", published [1912] [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Poulalion [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernard Panouillot , "Mandoline", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882 - 1949), "Mandoline", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons, no. 4, Vienna, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gil Plechoyano , "Mandoline", published 1930 [ reciter and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), as Bernard de Lisle, "Mandoline", 1911, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pierre Salet (1875 - 1936), "Mandoline", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Fêtes galantes, no. 1, Paris Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carlos Suffern (1901 - 1991), "Mandoline", 1928 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Mandoline", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 10, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) , "Mandoline" ; composed by William Spencer Johnson.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942) , "Mandolinen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Fêtes Galantes, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., p. 26, first published 1906 ; composed by Othmar Schoeck, Richard Trunk, Erich J. Wolff.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wolf von Kaickreuth, Graf (1887 - 1906) , "Mandoline" ; composed by Max Kowalski.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Mandoliny"
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "Mandolina", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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