La chanson du fou | Au soleil couchant

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Au soleil couchant

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER GER

Au soleil couchant,
Toi qui vas cherchant
Fortune, 
Prends garde de choir;
La terre, le soir,
Est brune.
L'océan trompeur
Couvre de vapeur
La dune.
Vois, à l'horizon,
Aucune maison 
Aucune!

Maint voleur te suit,
La chose est, la nuit,
Commune.
Les dames des bois
Nous gardent parfois
Rancune.
Elles vont errer:
Crains d'en rencontrer
Quelqu'une.
Les lutins de l'air
Vont danser au clair
De lune.

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Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "La chanson du fou", appears in Odes et Ballades, in 6. Ballades - 1823-1828, no. 10a [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 Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "La chanson du fou", op. 21 no. 12 (1868), published 1873 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
by Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "La chanson du fou", published 1898 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "La chanson du fou", 1870-79? [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 16, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Delannoy (1898 - 1962), "Ballade d'Elespuru", published 1935 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux airs pour Cromwell de Victor Hugo, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel', Heugel et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Marc Delmas (1885 - 1931), "Chanson", 1914, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], Milan, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by (Charles Gustave) Alban Cocural Dorcy (1856 - 1931), "La Chanson du fou", published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 9, Éd. V. Durdilly & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugues Dufourt (b. 1943), "La Chanson du fou", published 2010 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from L'Essence intime des choses, no. 3, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900 - 1936), "Chanson d'Elespuru", 1936, published 1957, first performed 1936 [ baritone or tenor and piano or orchestra ], from Trois chansons de Fous, no. 2, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Graud , "La Chanson du fou", subtitle: "Ballade", <<1875 [ medium voice, unaccompanied ], Éd. L. Vieillot [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Charles François Kreutzer (1817 - 1868), "Vieille Chanson" [ high voice and piano ], from 26 mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 2, Éd. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
by Hippolyte Monpou (1804 - 1841), "La chanson du fou de Cromwell", published 1835 [ medium voice and piano or guitar ], Éd. Meissonnier [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "La chanson du fou" [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 9, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène Wintzweiller (1844 - 1870), "Chanson du fou", published 1875 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies posthumes de Wintzweiller, no. , Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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