by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
Quand viendra la saison nouvelle
Language: French (Français)
Quand viendra la saison nouvelle,
Quand auront disparu les froids,
Tous les deux, nous irons, ma belle,
Pour cueillir le muguet au bois;
Sous nos pieds égrénant les perles
Que l'on voit, au matin trembler,
Nous irons écouter les merles
Siffler.
Le printemps est venu, ma belle;
C'est le mois des amants béni;
Et l'oiseau, satinant son aile,
Dit [des]1 vers au rebord du nid.
[Oh !]2 viens donc sur [le]3 banc de mousse
Pour parler de nos beaux amours,
Et dis-moi de ta voix si douce:
«Toujours !»
Loin, bien loin égarant nos courses,
Faisons fuir le lapin caché,
Et le daim au miroir des sources
Admirant son grand bois penché ;
Puis chez nous tout [joyeux]4, tout aises,
En paniers, enlaçant nos doigts,
Revenons rapportant des fraises
Des bois.
J. Radoux sets stanzas 1-3
P. Viardot sets stanzas 1-2
E. Lacheurié sets stanzas 1-2
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Théophile Gauthier, La comédie de la mort, Desessart editeur, Paris, 1838, page 361.
1 Berlioz: "ses"2 Viardot: "Ah ! "
3 Berlioz, Lavigne, Viardot: "ce"
4 Berlioz, Lavigne: "heureux"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Villanelle rythmique", appears in La Comédie de la Mort, first published 1838 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Archainbaud (1866 - 1941), "Villanelle", published 1894 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, L. Bathlot-Joubert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Casimir Baille , "Villanelle", 1911 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Baudot , "Villanelle" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis (Ludwig) Benedictus (1850 - 1921), "Villanelle", published [1889] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869), "Villanelle", op. 7 no. 1 (1840) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Les Nuits d'Été, no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Julie Bernard , "Villanelle", op. 25, published 1869 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Honoré Bizalion , "Villanelle", published [1874] [ high voice and piano ], Lyon, Adrien Rey [sung text not yet checked]
- by Xavier Boisselot (1811 - 1893), "Villanella", 1837?, published [1837] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Maurice Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles-Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821 - 1873), "Chanson de mai", subtitle: "Villanelle", published 1850-6 [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Meissonnier Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Brun (d. 1961), "Villanelle", published [1904] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by J.-F. Édouard van Buggenhout (1818 - 1877), "Villanelle", published 1865 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allyre Bureau (1810 - 1859), "La saison nouvelle - Villanelle", published 1852 [ voice and English horn or cello ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Alex. Brullé [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marc Burty (d. 1903), "Quand viendra la saison nouvelle - Villanelle", published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Lyon, Adrien Rey [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anatol Canivet , "La saison nouvelle - Villanelle", 1867, published 1870 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Charton (1862 - 1929), "Villanelle rythmique", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ed. Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Auguste Charles Cœdès (1840 - 1884), "Villanelle rythmique", op. 12, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gambogi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Costa , "Villanelle", published 1882 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Enoch [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (1827 - 1892), "Villanelle", published 1878 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Au Ménestrel, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Durand (1830 - 1903), "La saison nouvelle", subtitle: "Villanelle", published 1879 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Théodore Michaelis [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Durand , "Villanelle rythmique", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Colombier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Auguste Fragerolle (1855 - 1920), "Saison nouvelle" [ voice and piano ], Paris, J.-B. katto [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Garnier (1821 - 1887), "Villanelle rythmique", published 1854 [ vocal duet with piano ], from Larmes et Sourires - 24 Morceaux de chant, no. 20, Paris, J. Benacci-Peschier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Gautier (1822 - 1878), "Villanelle", published 1869 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Gédalge (1856 - 1926), "Villanelle", 1878, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Gouin , "Villanelle" [ voice and piano ], Paris, Brandus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Villanelle rythmique", 1902, published 1906 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, deuxième recueil, no. 2, Éd. Société Musicale G. Astruc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guy de Kervéguen, Vicomte (1857 - 1896), "Villanelle", published 1879 [ vocal duet for soprano and tenor with piano? ], from Trois duos, no. 1, Paris, J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Lacheurié (b. 1831), "Villanelle", published 1897, stanzas 1-2 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos and piano ], in the supplement to Annales politiques et littéraires [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Villanelle", published 1863 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ed. F. Bachmann, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Lefebvre (1843 - 1917), "Villanelle", first performed 1874 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies - 2ème recueil, no. 1, Paris, Renaud [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michaël Levinas (b. 1949), "Villanelle rythmique", published 1984 [ soprano or tenor and small orchestra ], from Nuits d'été daraus, no. 1, a re-orchestration of the melody by Berlioz ; Paris, München : Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adrien Lévy , "Villanelle" [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. & H. Pitault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Loret (1859 - 1946), "Villanelle", op. 102 (1885), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Colombier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Louis (d. 1890), "Villanelle", published 1878 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlo Luigi , "Villanelle" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Moullé (1845 - 1923), "Villanelle", <<1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Paray (1886 - 1979), "Villanelle", 1912, orchestrated 1944 by Ernest Dupré [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Pascal , "Villanelle", published 1845 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Pacini ; four settings [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Poisot (1822 - 1904), "Villanelle rythmique" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835 - 1911), "Villanelle rythmique", published 1874, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 12, Paris, L. Gregh [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Raynal , "Tous les deux", subtitle: "Villanelle rythmique", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Bordeaux, Emile Marchand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Villanelle", published 1880 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano - 2ième receuil, no. 1, Paris, Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. de Rin , "Villanelle rythmique" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Selmer , "Villanelle", op. 8, published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Paris, self-published [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Sizes (1872 - 1946), "Villanelle", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Toulouse, Martin & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Étienne Soubre (1813 - 1871), "Villanelle rythmique" [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Bruxelles, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Tessier (1851 - 1909), as Ernest Lavigne, "Villanelle" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by R. Toinet , "Villanelle" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edoardo Vera (1821 - 1889), "Quand viendra la saison nouvelle - Villanelle" [ high voice and piano ], Leander & Cock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edoardo Vera (1821 - 1889), "Quand viendra la saison nouvelle - Villanelle", published 1856 [ vocal duet for soprano and contralto with piano ], from Rose e spine, no. 8, Milano, Giovanni Canti; London [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Viardot (1857 - 1941), "Villanelle", published 1887, stanzas 1-2 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, poésies de T. Gautier, M. Carré, Sully Prudhomme et M. Bouchor, no. 6, Paris, Henri Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Vidal (1863 - 1931), "Villanelle", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 1, Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anselm Vinée (1847 - 1921), "Villanelle" [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "Saison nouvelle", published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Villanelle rythmique", copyright © 1925 [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre poésies de Théophile Gautier, no. 2, Paris, L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874) , "Ländliches Lied" ; composed by Hector Berlioz, Mathilde von Kralik.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by F. Bachmann ; composed by Louis Lacombe.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "Villanelle"
- ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Villanelle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2015
- FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , "Villanelle", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , "Villanelle", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Contadinella", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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