Songs
La dernière feuille
(1880)
Op. 2 no.4
La dernière feuille
Dans la forêt chauve et rouilléeII ne reste plus au rameauQu’une pauvre feuille oubliée,Rien qu’une feuille et qu’un oiseau.Il ne reste plus en mon âmeQu’un seul amour pour y chanter;Mais le vent d’automne, qui brame,Ne permet pas de l’écouter.L’oiseau s’en va, la feuille tombe,L’amour s’éteint, car c’est l’hiver.Petit oiseau, viens sur ma tombeChanter quand l’arbre sera vert.
The last leaf
In the bare and blighted forestNothing remains on the branches Except a poor forgotten leaf -Nothing but a leaf and bird.Nothing remains in my soulExcept a lone love singing there;But the howling autumn windWill not allow it to be heard.The bird flies away, the leaf falls,Love dies, for winter is come.Little bird, alight on my tombAnd sing when the tree is green again.
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Composer
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer. From 1886 until his death in 1899, Chausson was secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique, met with a number of notable figures during his short lifetime, including the composers Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Albéniz, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, and the impressionist painter Claude Monet. He died at the age of 44 in bicycle accident.
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Poet
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
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Previously performed at:
- 14 Oct 2020: 25. The Great Debate
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La dernière feuille
The last leaf
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Composer
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer. From 1886 until his death in 1899, Chausson was secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique, met with a number of notable figures during his short lifetime, including the composers Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Albéniz, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, and the impressionist painter Claude Monet. He died at the age of 44 in bicycle accident.
Read more here.
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Poet
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
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Previously performed at:
- 14 Oct 2020: 25. The Great Debate
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