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Notre amour est chose légère Comme les parfums que le vent Prend aux cimes de la fougère Pour qu'on les respire en rêvant. -- Notre amour est chose légère ! Notre amour est chose charmante, Comme les chansons du matin Où nul regret ne se lamente, Où vibre un espoir incertain. -- Notre amour est chose charmante ! Notre amour est chose sacrée Comme les mystères des bois Où tressaille une âme ignorée, Où les silences ont des voix. -- Notre amour est chose sacrée ! Notre amour est chose infinie, Comme les chemins des couchants Où la mer, aux cieux réunie, S'endort sous les soleils penchants. [-- Notre amour est chose infinie !]1 Notre amour est chose éternelle Comme tout ce qu'un dieu vainqueur A touché du feu de son aile, Comme tout ce qui vient du cœur, -- Notre amour est chose éternelle !
1 omitted by Fauré.
Authorship:
- by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Notre Amour", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 14, first published 1880 [author's text not yet checked 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 Léon Boëllmann (1862 - 1897), "Notre amour" [ high voice, piano, and cello obbligato ], Édition Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Notre Amour", op. 23 no. 2 (1879?), published 1882, orchestrated 1923 by Henri-Paul Büsser [ voice and piano ], Éditions J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cayetano Troiani (1873 - 1942), "Notre amour", published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies, no. 8, G. Ricordi e C. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El nostre amor", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Our love", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Il nostro amore", copyright © 2009, (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: 142
Il nostro amore è qualcosa di lieve come i profumi che il vento ruba alle sommità della felce per aspirarli sognando. - Il nostro amore è qualcosa di lieve! Il nostro amore è qualcosa di grazioso come il canto del mattino dove nulla si piange o si lamenta, dove vibra una incerta speranza. - Il nostro amore è qualcosa di grazioso! Il nostro amore è qualcosa di sacro come i misteri dei boschi dove si cela un'anima ignota dove i silenzi hanno voci. - Il nostro amore è qualcosa di sacro! Il nostro amore è qualcosa di infinito, come il cammino verso l'occidente dove il mare, unito al cielo, s'addormenta sotto il sole calante. - Il nostro amore è qualcosa di infinito! Il nostro amore è qualcosa di eterno come tutto ciò che un dio vincitore ha toccato col fuoco delle sue ali, come tutto ciò che viene dal cuore, - Il nostro amore è qualcosa di eterno!
Authorship:
- 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 Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Notre Amour", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 14, first published 1880
This text was added to the website: 2009-08-27
Line count: 25
Word count: 158