La Mort des amants

Claude Debussy
Composed in 1887.


Publications

  • Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire (1890)
  • Debussy et ses mélodies : Oeuvres complètes (1971)
  • French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century (1978)
  • Debussy: 43 Songs for High Voice and Piano (No. 1135) (1961)
  • Debussy: 43 Songs for Voice and Piano (Low and Medium) (No. 1136) (1961)

Recordings

  • Mélodies sur des poèmes de Baudelaire (2003)
  • Debussy: Cinq Poemes De Baudelaire / Messiaen: Harawi (1954)
  • Messiaen: Chants De Terre Et De Ciel / Debussy: Cinq Poèmes De Charles Baudelaire (1972)
  • Claude Debussy: Complete Songs - Intégrale des Mélodies (1980)
  • Mélodies (1992)
  • Forgotten Songs: Dawn Upshaw Sings Debussy (1997)

Poems

La Mort des Amants

Catalogue

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42939473d

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/7dmygBnLajqK0i7DMUgSPH?si=dZ8vfy7pSMGKDN_VOeXWDw

Languages

French

Scorings

solo voice, piano

Genres

Mélodie, Classical

Tessitura

high voice

Tonality

G flat major

Notes

Song cycle dedicated to Etienne Dupin. Principally in the key of G flat major. Modulations as follows: Q1: G flat major > D flat major, Q2: D flat major > A flat minor, T1: E major > C major, T2: C major > G flat major. Cf. Helen Abbott, Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers, (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), (p. 111).