La fleur des eaux

Song TitleLa fleur des eaux (Search)
Composer(s):Ernest Chausson
Author(s):Maurice Bouchor (and Anonymous)
Keyword(s) & Features: Absent Love; Abysses; Addressee: Lover; Addressee: Nature; Air; Airs; Anguish; Appearing; Beautiful; Beauty; Beloved; Billows; Birds; Bleeding; Blooming; Breezes; Children; Clamor; Colors; Connection to Nature; Covering; Cruel; Dampening; Dark; Death; Despair; Distant Love; Dresses; Embracing; Eyes; Feet; Fixed; Flying; Full; Gazes; Glowing; Goodbye; Green; Hair; Hearts; Hours; Images; Joyous; Kissing; Leading; Life; Lifting; Lilacs; Loneliness; Love; Lovers; Metaphor: Lover as Soul; Mocking; Morning; Nature; Open; Parting; Passing; Paths; Perfuming; Personification: Nature; Personification: Seas; Personification: Sun; Personification: Wind; Pitiful; Raining; Rivulets; Roaming; Rolling; Roses; Sand; Savage; Scents; Scoffing; Seas; Seascapes; Seeing; Separation; Shores; Silence; Silent; Singing; Sky; Smiling; Sobs; Souls; Sounds; Sparkling; Summer; Sun; Sunshine; Tearing; Tender; Tolling; Transfiguring; Visions; Watching; Water; Wind; Wings; Without Love; Youth
First LineL'air est plein d'une odeur exquise de lilas (Search)
Average Duration12:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1886 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_translations.html?LanguageId=7&SongCycleId=258
Larger WorkPoème de l'Amour et de la Mer (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/ad/IMSLP24901-PMLP55967-Po%C3%A8me_de_l'amour_et_de_la_mer.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5xMVNPppxoAjlK7N52KSPf
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/la-fleur-des-eaux-2/
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 19 no. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/High voice
Range: Db4 - Ab5 (Search)
Original KeyVarious (Search)
Dedicated ToHenri Duparc (Search)
Orchestra and voice?No (Search)
ContributorAL; JC; GTM (Search)
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