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L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée Meurt comme de la fumée, Tandis qu'en l'air, parmi les ramures réelles, Se [plaignent]1 les tourterelles. Combien, ô voyageur, ce paysage blême Te mira blême toi-même, Et que tristes pleuraient dans les hautes feuillées, - Tes espérances noyées.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 9, first published 1872 [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 Guido Bianchini (1885 - 1971), "Paysage triste", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rosalie-Maude Bowlby (1886 - ?), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", [1942] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre Carolus-Duran (1876 - 1945), "Angoisse", 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Impressions, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Coquereaux , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six pièces pour piano et chant, no. 5, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "L'ombre des arbres", L. 63/(60) no. 3 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Paris, Vve E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Dulaurens (1873 - 1932), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée" [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Simone Féjard (1911 - 2012), "Paysage triste", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rodolphe de Foras , "Espérance noyées", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Guller (b. 1886), "Paysage" [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Bruxelles (Brussels), Édition Fernand Lauweryns [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Paysage triste", 1888, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 6, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucien Legras , "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published [1954] [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Legras [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guillemette Marrannes (b. 1954), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", 1999 [ high voice and piano ], from Sensation, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "L’ombre des arbres", op. 53 no. 6 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Paysage triste", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies et poèmes, no. 10, London, J. & W. Chester [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "L'ombre des arbres", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Paysage", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Girard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Renée Philippart-Gonzalez (1905 - 1993), "Reflet", 1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Brume", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Radoux Rogier (1877 - 1952), "L'ombre des arbres" [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. Schott Frères [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ladislas Rohozinski (1886 - 1938), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lazare Saminsky (1882 - 1959), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 5 no. 5, published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle Verlaine, no. 5, Moscow ; later published Paris, Sénart 1927 ; also in Russian and German [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustave Sandré (1843 - 1916), "L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée", op. 56 no. 1, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Paysage triste", op. 31 (Sept Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 6, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Sturzenegger (1905 - 1976), "Prélude", 1928 [ bass and violoncello ], from Suite, no. 1, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édith Sutter , "Ariette oubliée", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], Paris, E. Sutter [sung text not yet checked]
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
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The shadow of the trees in the misty river", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Bäume Schatten", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 9
- GER German (Deutsch) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 44
Der Bäume Schatten auf verhang'nem Strome zerlöst sich, gleich einem Phantome, indes erschallt durch Zweig und Laube der Klageruf der Turteltaube. Wie ward doch, Wandrer, dieses fahl' Gefilde zu deinem bleichen Spiegelbilde, wie trauerte in hohem Laubesdome dein Hoffen selbst, im Tränenstrome.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2011 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 9, first published 1872
This text was added to the website: 2011-07-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 42