Le Secret (Gabriel Fauré)
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- Editor: Stuart Moffatt (submitted 2021-11-21). Score information: A3, 2 pages, 273 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- Editor: Pierre Gouin (submitted 2008-07-21). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 90 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright © Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2006. Edition is in original key of B Minor. Scroll down to 3. Le Secret (Original key, D-flat major).
General Information
Title: Le Secret, Op. 23 No. 3
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Lyricist: Paul-Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: French
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1881
Description: Composed 1880-1881. Dedicated to Mademoiselle Alice Boissonnet.
External websites:
- Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- German translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Le Secret (Paul-Armand Silvestre).
French text
Je veux que le matin l’ignore
Le nom que j’ai dit à la nuit,
Et qu’au vent de l’aube, sans bruit,
Comme un larme il s’évapore.
Je veux que le jour le proclame
L’amour qu’au matin j’ai caché,
Et sur mon cœur ouvert penché
Comme un grain d’encens il l’enflamme.
Je veux que le couchant l’oublie
Le secret que j’ai dit au jour,
Et l’emporte avec mon amour,
Aux plis de sa robe pâlie!