Chanson d'automne

Les sanglots longs
des violons
   de l'automne
blessent mon coeur
d'une langueur
   monotone.

Tout suffocant
et blême, quand
   sonne l'heure.
je me souviens
des jours anciens,
   et je pleure...

Et je m'en vais
au vent mauvais
   qui m'emporte
de çà, de là,
pareil à la
   feuille morte...

by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , "Chanson d'automne", from Poèmes saturniens, in Paysages tristes, no. 5, published 1866

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Karl Baraquin , "Chanson d'automne"
by Georges Barrère (1876-1944) , "Chanson d'automne"
by Willem Frederik Bon (1940-1983) , "L'automne", from Saisons de Verlaine, no. 3.
by Charles Bordes (1863-1909) , "Chanson d'automne", 1886, from Paysages tristes, no. 2.
by M. Brillot , "Chanson d'automne"
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) , "Chanson d'automne", from Quatre chansons françaises, no. 4.
by Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) , "Chanson d'automne"
by John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) , "Chanson d'automne", from Four Poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 2.
by Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) , "Chanson d'automne"
by Frederick Delius (1862-1934) , "Chanson d'automne", 1895, from Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 4.
by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) , "Chanson d'automne", published 1897. [choral]
by Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914) , "Chanson d'automne", 1895.
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "Chanson d'automne", from Chansons grises, no. 1.
by Tibor Harsanyi (1898-1954) , "Chanson d'automne"
by Jan Maarten Komter , "Chanson d'automne", 1945.
by Joseph Kosma (1905-1969) , "Verlaine"
by Léon Orthel (1905-1985) , "Chanson d'automne", op. 87 no. 2 (1980), from Herfst, no. 2.
by André Prévost (1934-2001) , "Chanson d'automne", 1952. [voice and piano]
by Charles Trenet (1913-2001) , "Les sanglots longs", published 1947.

by Oskar Ulmer (1883-1966) , "Herbstlied", op. 9 no. 1. [voice and piano]

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