Chanson triste
by Henri Duparc
SSATB - Sheet Music

SSATB Choir, Piano - Level 3

SKU: CA.925100

Composed by Henri Duparc. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition to the CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full Score. 2.4. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.251/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.925100).

ISBN M-007-24913-7. Key: E flat major. Language: French. Text: Lahor, Jean.

The few works which Henri Duparc composed and left to posterity display a deep preoccupation with grief and pain, coupled with a great fear of loneliness. His Chanson triste (Sad Song), composed in 1868 or 1869, was one such work. Duparc treasured it so much that he made an orchestral version of it in 1912. He set texts by contemporary French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Sully Prudhomme, and Henri Cazalis, who wrote under the pseudonym Jean Lahor. Denis Rouger, founder and director of the figure humaine chamber choir, has arranged art songs for solo voice and piano for his ensemble, in the process carefully adapting these to the needs and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble. Music edition for the successful CD "Kennst du das Land..." (Carus 83.495).