Chanson d'Automne

Herbstlied

DCW 111
RT V/27
DCE 19

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: Paul Verlaine
Translator: Jelka Rosen

Setting of Verlaine's 'Paysages tristes' from Poèmes saturniens (1867).

Composition: 1911.

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne'
'Es seufzen lang die Geigentöne des Herbstes'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Draft

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, draft, complete]

This manuscript contains i) a pencil draft setting, autograph and ii) a copy in an unknown hand.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/6. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Autograph score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, engraver's copy, complete]

Autograph score, ink over pencil, French words only.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/4/5. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Copyist's score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, score, fair copy, complete]

In a copyist's hand, a manuscript marked Sara Müller|Fr. Delius|2 Sange|Palsgaard Vinteren|1915, containing 'Chanson d'Automne' and 'To Daffodils'. The copyist is unknown but the manuscript is notable as predating publication of 'To Daffodils'. It may have been prepared for a specific performance.

The Delius Trust, London Acc. 349.

Published score

[Classification: notated music, print, score, first edition, complete]

Tischer & Jagenberg, Cologne 1915.

Published as no. 5 (Herbstlied) of Fünf Gesänge, French and German words. Transferred to Oxford University Press in 1930, appearing re-engraved in A Book of Songs with that publisher in 1969, French words only.

Collected Edition

[Classification: notated music, print, score, later edition, complete]

Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York 1987.

Included in vol. 19 of the Collected Edition: Nineteen Songs.

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