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French Songs

Песни на французский текста

Three projected songs (1888).

  1. Lamentot
    Жалоба
    • Text by Paul Collin, from his poem of the same name.
  2. Mai
    Май

    • Text by Paul Collin, from the cycle Un an d'amour (part IV of the cycle Mélodies).

  3. Elle est malade
    Она больна
    • Text by Eugène Borel, from an untitled poem.
  • Unrealised projects dating from January(?) - October 1888.
  • For medium voice (No. 1), low or medium voice (No. 2), or baritone (No. 3) with piano.

History

Tchaikovsky made these three sketches while he was compiling the set of Six French Songs [Op. 65], between January and October 1888, but they were not subsequently used in that collection.

From: The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1 (2002), p. 410
Copyright © 2002 Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston