Les Hiboux

Déodat de Séverac
Composed between 1895 and 1911.

Publications	Deux Mélodies (1913) Douze Mélodies (1924) Mélodies et Chansons (1994)
Recordings	Séverac Songs (1990)
Poems	Les Hiboux
Catalogue	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3917354/f1.image.r=s%C3%A9verac%20les%20hiboux
Spotify	https://open.spotify.com/track/0eMsexRqwJfFmkOWZBAs58
Languages	French
Scorings	solo voice, piano
Genres	Mélodie, Classical
Tessitura	low voice
Tonality	D minor
Notes	This composition was first published in 1898, but substantially revised before it was published a second time in 1911. The original setting is in D minor, though it has been transposed into G minor for high voice (as per the 1994 'Mélodies et chansons' publication, by Éditions Salabert.