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Guitare
Poem: Victor Hugo (1802–85) no. XXII of Les Rayons et les ombres (Paris, 1840) entitled Autre Guitare and dated July 1838. Bizet’s father also set this text (F-Pn MS 3823).
Comment, disaient-ils,Avec nos nacelles,Fuir les alguazils ?– Ramez, disaient-elles.Comment, disaient-ils,Oublier querelles,Misère et périls ?– Dormez, disaient-elles.Comment, disaient-ils,Enchanter les bellesSans philtres subtils ?– Aimez, disaient-elles.
Composition: September 1866, for publication by Heugel in Feuilles d’album.
Autograph score: not known
Heugel, pl. no. H. 3370, 5 p., 1867, as no. 4 of Feuilles d’album. Copies: F-Pn Vm7 8275(4), GB-dean, GB-Lbl H.2476(4) (stamped 18-3-67), US-STu. This song was also sold separately @ 4.50 fr.
Garland, New York, 1995, in Romantic French Song 1830–1870, edited by David Tunley, vol. 4, p. 241–45 (facsimile of Heugel edition).
Eroïca Music Publications, c. 2005 (facsimile of Heugel edition).
Classical Vocal Reprints, New York, n.d., (facsimile of Heugel edition). Gallica.
Cecilia Music Concept, Cologne, 2013, as Souvenirs d'été, no. 1, arranged by Andreas N. Tarkmann.
Dedicatee: Eugénie Garcia, née Mayer (1815–80), soprano, wife of the singing teacher Manuel Garcia, sister-in-law of Pauline Viardot, and herself a singing teacher.
- Georges Thill, M. Faure (78)
- Georges Thill. J. Benvenuti (78)
- Felicity Lott, Graham Johnson, 1985
- Jill Gomez, John Constable, 1994
- Pigot (1886) 66, 317
- Pigot (1911) 63, 281
- Curtiss 177, 467
- Dean 153, 268
- Wright 79n
- Lacombe 43, 342, 364-65
- Frits Noske, French Song from Berlioz to Duparc (New York: Dover, 1970), p. 198-99.