T28

Chants des Pyrénées

six mélodies populaires


1Mon doux ami
[musical score]
27 bars (+ 4 more verses)
2Là-haut sur la montagne
[musical score]
34 bars (+ 5 more verses)
3De mes brebis la plus charmante
[musical score]
18 bars (+ 3 more verses)
4La haute montagne
[musical score]
19 bars (+ 4 more verses)
5Rossignolet, A flat major
[musical score]
31 bars (+ 4 more verses)
6Connaissez-vous ma bergère
[musical score]
21 bars (+ 3 more verses)
voice and piano
Original works: six folksongs from the Pyrenees probably supplied to Bizet by the publisher. The original song titles are given in the music as:

The words are traditional, in a French version by Jules-Émile Ruelle (1834–92), playwright, librettist and translator. He was secretary at the Théâtre-Lyrique from 1866 to 1869. He wrote librettos for Gallyot, Wilhelm, Reyer and others, and translated Verdi’s I masnadieri and Borodin’s Prince Igor for the French stage.

Transcription: by December 1867, for publication by Taldoni, who must have supplied Bizet with the melodies. Each song is dedicated to a different lady.
Autograph score: not known
Printed score:
1
pl. no:

none

pages:

12 (unpaginated)

ann:

Bibliographie de la France, 21-12-1867 @ 4 fr.

date:

1867

copy:

F-Pn Vm7 2283 (the date 1867 is inked in)

E-Mn XX (462497.1)
2

Éditions Fuzeau, FUZ 50102, 2007 (facsimile of Taldoni edition)

Dedicatees:
no. 1Mme G. d’Auribeau. G. d'Auribeau was préfet of Basses-Pyrénées.
no. 2Mme Fanny Bouchet, to whom Bizet also dedicated Après l’hiver and La Coccinelle. A song by Pauline Viardot, L’Oiselet, published by Gérard in about 1864 was also dedicated to her.
no 3Mlle Madeleine Martin. Not identified.
no 4Mme la Comtesse Duchâtel (1817-1878). She was Eglée-Rosalie Paulée, from Les Landes, wife of Charles-Marie Duchâtel, comte Tanneguy (1803–1867), one of the founders of the Globe, Minister of Commerce in 1834 and Minister of the Interior from 1840 to 1848. Winterhalter painted her portrait in 1841. Their daughter was the Duchesse de la Trémouïlle.
no 5Mme la Duchesse de la Trémouïlle (1840-1913). She was Marguerite Duchâtel, daughter of the Comte and Comtesse Duchâtel, and wife of Louis Charles, Duc de la Trémouïlle.
no 6Mme Marie Trélat (1837-1914), mezzo-soprano and singing teacher, wife of Ulysse Trélat (1828–90), surgeon. Bizet frequented their salon.
Letter:
?1867, to Baudon:
'…Où en est l'affaire Taldoni ?... on me presse ! un mot s.v.p.'
Librairie de l'Abbaye, 2011
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