Harmonie du soir

Claude Debussy
Composed in 1889.


Publications

  • Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire (1890)
  • Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire (1904)
  • 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)
  • Baudelaire: Mélodies françaises (2000)

Poems

Harmonie du Soir

Catalogue

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb449044417

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/4JjDxImJSlOkEhWJ66uVvr

Languages

French

Scorings

solo voice, piano

Genres

Mélodie, Classical

Tessitura

mid-range (baritone or mezzo soprano)

Tonality

B major

Notes

Transposition for high voice in C major (as in 'French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century' (New York, NY: Dover Publications Inc. 1978). Transposition for medium voice in A major (in low and medium voice edition of 'Debussy: 43 Songs for Voice and Piano' (Low and Medium) (No. 1136) (New York, NY: IMC, 1961). The cycle of five poems is dedicated to Etienne Dupin.