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Le ciel d'hiver, si doux, si triste, si dormant, Où le soleil errait parmi [des]1 vapeurs blanches, Était pareil au doux, au profond sentiment Qui nous rendait heureux mélancoliquement Par [cette après-midi de rêves]2 sous les branches... Branches mortes qu'aucun souffle ne remuait, Branches noires [avec]3 quelque feuille fanée, -- Ah! que [mon âme s'est à ton âme]4 donnée Plus tendrement [encor]5 dans ce grand bois muet, Et dans cette langueur de la mort de l'année ! La mort de tout, sinon de toi que j'aime tant, Et sinon du bonheur dont mon âme est comblée, Bonheur qui dort au fond de cette âme isolée, Mystérieux, paisible et frais comme l'étang Qui pâlissait au fond de la pâle vallée.
C. Widor sets stanzas 1-2
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Œuvres de Paul Bourget: Poésies 1876-1882. Edel. Les Aveux, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1885, pages 137-138.
1 Widor: "les"2 Debussy: "cet après-midi de baisers"
3 Widor: "portant"
4 Debussy: "ta bouche s'est à ma bouche"
5 Debussy: "encore"
Authorship:
- by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Paysage sentimental", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Paysage sentimental", L. 55/(45) (1883), published 1902 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Le ciel d'hiver", op. 75 no. 12, published 1902, stanzas 1-2 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons de Mer, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Sentimental landscape", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Seelengefilde", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Dániel Csűry) , "Érzelmes tájkép", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Paesaggio sentimentale", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mónica Luz Alvarez Jiménez) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 118
Il cielo di inverno, così dolce, così triste, così assopito, quando il sole s'aggira tra bianchi vapori, è simile al dolce, al profondo sentimento che ci ha reso felici e pieni di melanconia in questo pomeriggio di baci sotto i rami. Quei rami secchi che nessun soffio muove Rami neri con qualche foglia avvizzita. Ah! la tua bocca che si è donata alla mia bocca ancora più teneramente in questo grande bosco silenzioso, in questo languore della morte dell'anno Morte di tutto se non di te che amo così tanto. E neppure della felicità che colma la mia anima, Felicità che dorme nel profondo di quest'anima solitaria, misterioso, silenziosa e fresca come lo stagno che impallidisce sullo sfondo della pallida vallata.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2009 by Enrico Magnani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Paysage sentimental", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882
This text was added to the website: 2009-01-20
Line count: 15
Word count: 121