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La Chanson du fou
mélodie
Poem: Victor Hugo (1802–85), from Cromwell (Paris 1828), Act IV Scene 1, sung by the fou Elespuru ‘sur un air monotone’.
Au soleil couchant,Toi qui vas cherchantFortune,Prends garde de choir ;La terre, le soir,Est brune.L'océan trompeurCouvre de vapeurLa dune.Vois, à l'horizon,Aucune maison,Aucune !Maint voleur te suit ;La chose est, la nuit,Commune.Les dames des boisNous gardent parfoisRancune.Elles vont errer ;Crains d'en rencontrerQuelqu'une.Les lutins de l'airVont danser au clairDe lune.
Composition: July 1868, for publication by Hartmann.
G.H.187
title page, blank, music 1-3, blank
1868
Bibliographie de la France , 7-11-1868 (with La Coccinelle) @ 3 fr.
Choudens, as no. 12 in Vingt mélodies, 1873, in two keys, Am and Gm. IMSLP.
Sonzogno, Milan, pl. no. 7626-7627, 3 p., c. 1888, as La canzone del pazzo, in Italian, in two keys. I-Mc.
Schirmer, New York, in Vocal album: thirty-one songs: Volume I, in two keys, in French and English (translated by Eugene Oudin). US-NYp, US-BEm. IMSLP.
Hansen, Copenhagen, pl. no. 12388, 5 p., 1898, in Swedish, French and Danish. D-B.
Garland, New York, 1995, in Romantic French Song 1830–1870, edited by David Tunley, vol. 4, p. 165-69 (facsimile of Hartmann edition).
Fuzeau, Paris, 2006, in Six Mélodies (facsimile of Hartmann edition).
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Manuscript. Private collection. Arranged for orchestra 2222-2000-timpani-strings in G minor by Paul Bastide (1879-1962). The manuscript is signed and dated Strasbourg, 28-1-1939 and stamped by the Société des Auteurs Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique on 11-3-1939.
Dedicatee: Emmanuel Jadin, perhaps the son or grandson of Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768–1853), composer of Revolutionary hymns and teacher at the Conservatoire.
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