Air de Faust

Merci, doux crépuscule!
Oh! sois le bienvenu!
Eclaire enfin ces lieux, sanctuaire inconnu,
où je sens à mon front glisser
comme un beau rêve,
comme le frais baiser d'un matin qui se lève!
C'est de l'amour, j'espère...

Oh! comme on sent ici s'envoler le souci!
Que j'aime ce silence,
et comme je respire un air pur!
Ô jeune fille! Ô ma charmante!
Ô ma trop idéale amante!
Quel sentiment j'éprouve
en ce moment fatal!

Que j'aime à contempler
ton chevet virginal!
Quel air pur je respire!
Seigneur! Seigneur!
Après ce long martyre, que de bonheur!

by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) [an adaptation]
by Almire Gandonnière (1814-?) [an adaptation]

a text in French by Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) , from Le Faust de Goethe

a text in German by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) , from Faust [text unavailable]

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

by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) , "Air de Faust", op. 24 no. ? (1845-6), first performed 1846 [tenor and orchestra or piano], from the opera La damnation de Faust, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2009-10-27.

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