Le midi (Banville, set by C. Koechlin) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Je vais voir, quand il est Midi,
Les estampes du quai Voltaire,
Fragonard qui ne peut se taire,
Et Boucher toujours étourdi.

Debucourt est fort applaudi,
Boilly plaît au célibataire;
Je vais voir, quand il est Midi,
Les estampes du quai Voltaire.

Mais Wateau, nautonier hardi,
C'est toi surtout, coeur solitaire,
C'est toi qu'en la triste Cythère
Où ton soleil a resplendi,
Je vais voir, quand il est Midi.

Authorship

Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823-1891)

Rondels

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

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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