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by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936)

Un petit roseau m'a suffi
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Un petit roseau m'a suffi
Pour faire frémir l'herbe haute
Et tout le pré
Et les doux saules
Et le ruisseau qui chante aussi ;
Un petit roseau m'a suffi
A faire chanter la forêt.

Ceux qui passent l'ont entendu 
Au fond du soir, en leurs pensées, 
Dans le silence et dans le vent, 
Clairon perdu, 
proche ou lointain... 
Ceux qui passent en leurs pensées 
En écoutant, au fond d'eux-mêmes, 
L'entendront encore et l'entendent 
Toujours qui chante.

Il m'a suffi
De ce petit roseau cueilli
A la fontaine où vint l'Amour
Mirer un jour
Sa face grave
Et qui pleurait,
Pour faire pleurer ceux qui passent
Et trembler l'herbe et frémir l'eau ;
Et j'ai, du souffle d'un roseau,
Fait chanter toute la forêt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Ropartz 

J. Ropartz sets stanzas 1, 3

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Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936), "Odelette I", written 1897, appears in Les jeux rustiques et divins, in 4. La corbeille des heures, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897 [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 Auguste Chapuis (1858 - 1933), "Un petit roseau m'a suffi", published 1932 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éditions Durand [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Léon Delafosse (1874 - 1951), "Mirages", published 1904 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour une ou deux voix et piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (François-Clément) Théodore Dubois (1837 - 1924), "Un petit roseau", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies (1906), no. 2, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Raoul Gradis (1861 - 1943), "Odelette no. 1" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Germaine de Jouvenel (1882 - 1964), as Guy Sargé, "Odelette II", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 3, Paris : Maxime Jamin [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Guy Morançon (b. 1927), "Odelette", 1947 [ high voice and flute ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacques Pillois (1877 - 1935), "Le Roseau", 1926 [ high voice, piano, flute obbligato ], Éd. Albert Zunz Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955), "Un petit roseau m'a suffi", 1913, stanzas 1,3 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Quatre Odelettes, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Maurice Touchard (1879 - 1956), "Odelette", 1919, published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-05
Line count: 26
Word count: 122

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