Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit

DCW 101
RT V/16
DCE 19

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: Paul Verlaine

Setting of lines from Verlaine's Sagesse, III/6 (1881).

Contained in:

Deux Mélodies

Composition: 1895.

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'Le ciel est, pardessus le toit'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Publisher's Stichvorlage

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

This Stichvorlage (for Tischer & Jagenberg) represents the final version of the song with a rewritten fourth and new fifth page, which was revised after initial publication by L'Aube. The original fifth page of this Stichvorlage is in GB-Lbl 1745/1/36.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/4/1. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Publisher's Stichvorlage, original last page

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

The original last page of the Tischer & Jagenberg Stichvorlage.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/1/36. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

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

L'Aube, Paris 1896.

This edition, published in L'Aube no. 1/4, July 1896, in French only, represents the early, unrevised version of the song.

Jelka Rosen's copy

A copyists' copy of the revised ending is pasted to the back page.

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

British Library source record

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