by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire
Language: French (Français)
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire, Pourquoi venir auprès de moi ? Pourquoi me faire ce sourire Qui tournerait la tête au roi ? Si vous n'avez rien à me dire, Pourquoi venir auprès de moi ? Si vous n'avez rien à m'apprendre, Pourquoi me pressez-vous la main ? Sur le rêve angélique et tendre, Auquel vous songez en chemin, Si vous n'avez rien à m'apprendre, Pourquoi me pressez-vous la main ? Si vous voulez que je m'en aille, Pourquoi passez-vous par ici ? Lorsque je vous vois, je tressaille : C'est ma joie et c'est mon souci. Si vous voulez que je m'en aille, Pourquoi passez-vous par ici ?
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations, Nelson, 1911 (p. 87).
Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Chanson", appears in Les Contemplations, in 2. Livre deuxiême -- L'âme en fleur, no. 4 [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 Joseph Henry Altès (1826 - 1895), "Chanson", op. 26 no. 2, published [1865?] [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from 15 Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Anthiome (1836 - 1916), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1903 [ medium voice and piano ], in the journal L'Illustration, no. 3162 of October 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by P. de Crisenoy , "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1858 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Brandus et Dufour [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "Pourquoi ?" [ high voice and piano ], from Premier recueil de vingt-cinq Mélodies chant et piano de J. Faure, no. 11, Édition Heugel 'Au Ménestrel' [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Huybrechts (1899 - 1938), "Chanson", 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Halfdan Kjerulf (1815 - 1868), "Chanson", op. 5 (8 Sånger) no. 1 (1852-1858), published 1858 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Si vous n'avez rien, à me dire", op. 46 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3, published 1875 [ duet for 2 voices with piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Salvatore C. Marchesi (1822 - 1908), "Pourquoi ?", published [1865] [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Mihalovici (1898 - 1985), "Chanson", op. 25 no. 1 (1927), published 1932 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois Romances de V. Hugo, no. 1, Éd. R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Pessard (1843 - 1917), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire" [ voice and piano ], Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1879 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano - 2ième receuil, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Richault & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gabriel Robert , "Chanson", op. 32 (Quatre mélodies avec accompagnement de piano) no. 1, published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre-Jacob Robert-Cantabre , "Chanson", published [1921] [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, I, no. 2, Pau, Éd. Pierre Jacob Cantabre [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", op. 5 no. 1, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Schreiber, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", 1870, published 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gaston Schindler (1872 - 1939), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], in the musical supplement to L'Illustration, April 20, 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Weinstötter (b. 1854), "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire", published 1884, from Deux Romances, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard Genée (1823 - 1895) ; composed by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 2016
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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