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2. Ô bruit doux [sung text checked 1 time]

Language: French (Français)

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Ô bruit doux de la pluie,
Par terre et sur les toits !
Pour un cœur qui s'ennuie,
Ô le [chant]² de la pluie !

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Sens, Typographie de Maurice L'Hermite, first published 1874

Set by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros (1909 - 1992), published 1967 [ vocal trio ], canon ; Presses de l'Île de France

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "There is weeping in my heart", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Thomas Ang) , "In my heart it weeps", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Es weint in meinem Herzen", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Es weint in meinem Herz", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Rostand: "pleut"
² Debussy: "bruit"
³ Fauré, Rostand: "mon"; Madetoja: "le"
⁴ Fauré, Rostand: "Mon"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

3. Ô bruit doux [sung text checked 1 time]

Language: French (Français)

[ ... ]

Ô bruit doux de la pluie,
Par terre et sur les toits !
Pour un cœur qui s'ennuie,
Ô le [chant]² de la pluie !

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Sens, Typographie de Maurice L'Hermite, first published 1874

Set by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros (1909 - 1992), published 1967 [ voice, four-part chorus, guitar ], Presses de l'Île de France

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Total word count: 160