Dans la forêt chauve et rouillée
Il ne reste plus au rameau
Qu'une pauvre feuille oubliée,
Rien qu'une feuille et qu'un oiseau,

Il ne reste plus dans mon âme
Qu'un seul amour pour y chanter;
Mais le vent d'automne qui brame
Ne permet pas de l'écouter.

L'oiseau s'en va, la feuille tombe,
L'amour s'éteint, car c'est l'hiver.
Petit oiseau, viens sur ma tombe
Chanter, quand l'arbre sera vert.

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Text first published as "L'hiver" in the journal "Don Quichotte", April 30, 1837.

Text Authorship:

• by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "La dernière feuille", written 1837, appears in La Comédie de la Mort, first published 1838 [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 Péricles Aramis (1854 - 1932), "La dernière feuille", published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
• by Delphin Marie Balleyguier (d. 1899), "La dernière feuille", subtitle: "Lied" [ voice and piano ], from Les chansons des troubadours, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Comolata Banerji (189? - 19??), "Dernière feuille", published 1926, London, J. Curwen & Sons [sung text not yet checked]
• by Maxime Belliard (1888 - 1986), "La dernière feuille", published [1926] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, M. Senart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Guido Bianchini (1885 - 1971), "La dernière feuille", published 1914 [ high voice and piano ], Milan, G. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
• by Victor Boisard (d. 1927), "La dernière feuille", published [1901] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, H. Kandowski [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustave Bret (1875 - 1969), "La dernière feuille", published <<1901 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Pfister frères [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Briclot , "La dernière feuille", 1925, published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, M. Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Amédée Dominique Marie, Baron de Carayon-Latour (1813 - 1855), "La dernière feuille", published 1854 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gérard de Chambéret (1887 - 1941), "La dernière feuille", published 1920, Paris, R. Furnari [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La dernière feuille", op. 2 (Sept mélodies) no. 4 (1880), published 1883 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antony Choudens (1849 - 1902), "La dernière feuille", published c1872 [ voice and piano ], from 20 Mélodies, no. 4, Paris: Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustave Collignon , "La dernière feuille", published 1893 [ high voice and piano ], from 3 Mélodies pour chant sur des poésies de Th. Gautier, no. 3, Paris, Locatelli & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Depret , "La dernière feuille", published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from [21] Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 7, Paris, H. Tellier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Germain Desbonnet (1938 - 2007), "La dernière feuille", 1978, published 1985 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 5, Éd. du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Ducarne , "La dernière feuille", 1888 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jacques Dupont, dit Jacque-Dupont (1906 - 1985), "La dernière feuille", op. 3 (3 Mélodies pour chant) no. 2 (1931-2), published 1932 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raúl Hugo Espoile (1889 - 1958), "La dernière feuille" [ medium voice and piano ], Buenos Aires, Ed. de la Soc. Nacional de Música [sung text not yet checked]
• by Simone Féjard (1911 - 2012), "La dernière feuille", 1939 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Fichefet (1899 - 1991), "Dans la forêt", op. 1b (<<1922) [ medium voice and piano ], from Premières mélodies, no. 2, Paris, M. Senart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "La dernière feuille", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], Evette & Schaeffer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anna François , "La dernière feuille", op. 31 no. 2, published 1898, from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes de Théophile Gautier, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Serge Gut (1927 - 2014), "La dernière feuille" [ soprano and piano ], from Deux mélodies pour soprano et piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865 - 1950), "La dernière feuille", op. 1, published c1890 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 10, Paris, A. Poulin [sung text not yet checked]
• by Léon Jouret (1828 - 1905), "La dernière feuille" [ voice and piano ], Bruxelles, R. Bertram [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustave Kéfer (b. 1855), "La dernière feuille", op. 2 no. 2 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 2, Leipzig, Éd. Otto Junne [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nestor Leblanc , "La dernière feuille", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], Paris, M. Senart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugenio (or Eugène) Lugo , "La dernière feuille", published 1904 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mélan-Guéroult , "La dernière feuille" [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
• by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "La dernière feuille", <<2011 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941), "Dans la forêt", c1886, published 1896 [ high voice and piano ], London, Willcocks & Co. (Ltd) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Paray (1886 - 1979), "La dernière feuille", published 1912, orchestrated 1944, from Trois mélodies de P. Paray sur des poésies de Th. Gautier, no. 2, Ed. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
• by Armand Parent (1863 - 1934), "La dernière feuille", op. 10, published 1892 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Mackar et Noël [sung text not yet checked]
• by Felipe Pedrell (1841 - 1922), "La dernière feuille", published 1877 [ high voice and piano ], from Consolations - 12 Mélodies sur des poésies de Théophile Gautier, no. 10, Milan: Francesco Lucca [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Patrice Pertuit (b. 1963), "La dernière feuille", copyright © 2005 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jules Philipot (1824 - 1897), "La dernière feuille", op. 126, published 1874 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from Poèmes et Chants, Poésies de Théophile Gautier, no. 7, Paris, Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
• by Blas Sánchez Hernández (b. 1935), "La dernière feuille", published 1966 [ vocal quartet with guitar ], from Vingt Chants de France et d'ailleurs à 2, 3, 4 et 5 voix avec accompagnement de guitare, no. 11, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "La dernière feuille", copyright © 2003 [ SSAATTBB chorus a cappella ], Hensall, Ontario : Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
• by George Templeton-Strong (1856 - 1948), "La dernière feuille", 1924 [ four-part men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "La dernière feuille", 1884 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by R. Vauthier , "La dernière feuille" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Axel Raoul Wachtmeister (1865 - 1947), "La dernière feuille", published 1928 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Elisabeth M. Lockwood (1856 - ?) ; composed by Manlio di Veroli.
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• ENG English (Peter Low) , "The last leaf", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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