Extase | J'étais seul près des flots, par une nuit d'étoiles

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

J'étais seul près des flots, par une...

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

J'étais seul près des flots, par une nuit d'étoiles.
Pas un nuage aux cieux, sur les mers pas de voiles.
Mes yeux plongeaient plus loin que le monde, le monde réel.
Et les bois, et les monts, et toute la nature,
Semblaient interroger dans un confus murmure
    Les flots des mers, les flots des mers, les feux du ciel.

Et les étoiles d'or, légions infinies,
À voix haute, à voix basse, avec mille harmonies,
Disaient, en inclinant leurs couronnes de feu;
Et les flots bleus, que rien ne gouverne et n'arrête,
Disaient en recourbant l'écume de leur crête:
    -- C'est le Seigneur, le seigneur Dieu!

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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Extase", written 1828, appears in Les Orientales, no. 37, first published 1829 [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 Paul Gaudens Albert Adréani , "Extase", 1917, published <<1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Les Chansons rêveuses, no. 4, Nice, Éd. Paul Adréani [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Henry Altès (1826 - 1895), "L'extase", op. 26 no. 7, published [1865?] [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from 15 Mélodies, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Extase", published <<1917 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 4e série, no. 70, Paris, Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "Extase", op. 21 (Three Songs) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979), "Extase", 1901 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antônio Francisco Braga (1868 - 1945), "Extase" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Extase", 1883, published 1913, first performed 1891 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart Lerolle & Cie (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Auguste Charlot (1827 - 1871), "Extase" [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 10, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
by Carlos Chávez (1899 - 1978), "Extase", 1918 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Isabelle Delâge-Prat (1860 - 1945), "Nuit d'étoiles" [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Librairie Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "Extase", published [1889] [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 11, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Hyppolyte Mirande (b. 1862), "Extase", published [1884] [ high voice and piano ], from Mélopées, no. 11, Paris, Éd. J. Naus [sung text not yet checked]
by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Extase", op. 91 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Deuxième Recueil de Mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Paganetti , "Extase", published 1903 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Ploix [sung text not yet checked]
by Felipe Pedrell (1841 - 1922), "Extase" [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Orientales, no. 1, Milan, G. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Hector Salomon (1838 - 1906), "Extase" [ medium voice and piano or organ ], Éd. Philippe Maquet [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Schmitt (flourished c1882), "Extase", published [1882] [ medium voice, piano, and violin or flute and organ ad libitum ], Éd. L. Thauvin [sung text not yet checked]
by Hyacinte de Vésian , "C'est le Seigneur, le Seigneur Dieu", published [1856] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Extase", op. 13 no. 3 (1899), published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), "Extase", WWV 54 (1839) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "J'étais seul près des flots", op. 30 (Deux duos soprano et contralto, avec accompagnement de piano) no. 1, published c1877 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Extase" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 8, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun.

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