Les Cloches (Claude Debussy)

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Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-18).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Editions in A Minor and C sharp Minor. English translation by Isabella G. Parker

General Information

Title: Les Cloches
Composer: Claude Debussy
Lyricist: Paul Bourget^{create page} (1852-1935)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: French
Instruments: Piano
Published: Deux Romances, No. 1 - 1891

Description: Original key is G flat Major.

External websites:

• Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
• English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
• Italian translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
• German translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"

Original text and translations

French text

Les feuilles s’ouvraient sur le bord des branches,

délicatement.

Les cloches tintaient, légères et franches,

dans le ciel clément.

Rhythmique et fervent comme une antienne,

ce lointain appel

me remémorait la blancheur chrétienne

des fleurs de l’autel.

Ce cloches parlaient d’heureuses années,

et, dans le grand bois,

semblaient reverdir les feuilles fanées,

des jours d’autrefois.