La Mort des amants

Gaston Serpette
Composed in 1879.

Publications	La Mort des amants (1879)
Poems	La Mort des Amants, Au Lecteur
Catalogue	https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43270378f
Languages	French
Scorings	solo voice, piano
Genres	Mélodie, Classical
Tessitura	medium voice
Tonality	D flat major
Notes	Serpette's score is labelled 'pour baryton'. Vocal range to suit soprano / mezzo. Dedicated to Madame Alice de Chazot For a detailed examination of Serpette's setting of "La Mort des amants", see Helen Abbott, Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).