146 Automne Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Armand Silvestre (1838-1901) ‘Composed 1878, Opus 18, no. 3. Published by Hamelle, 1880; second collection, no. 3. First performance Société nationale de musique, 29 January 1881, Henrietta Fuchs, soprano. Dedicated to M. Emmanuel Jadin. In Fauré's cata- logue, “Automne” stands out for its heavy dramatic texture and unrestrained climax. It is another example of Fauré’s ability to compose an elegant, sustained melodic line underlaid with intense emotion (also see “Apres un réve"). Automne Aucune, ‘Autumn of misty skies and heartbreaking horizons, (Of fleeting sunsets, of pale dawns watch flowing by, ike the waters ofa torent, Your days tinged with melancholy. ‘Automne au cel brumeux, aux horizons navrants, ‘Aux rapides couchanes, aux aurorespalies, Je regarde couler, comme l'eau du torent, ‘Tes jours fits de mélancoli ‘Sur Vaile des regrets mes eprits emportés, ‘Comme si se pouvait que notre ge enaisse! Parcourent en révant les coteaux enchantés, (04 jadi, sourie ma jeunesse! Jesens au clair soleil du souvenie vainqueut, Refleurir en bouquets les roses déliées, My thoughts, caried away om the wings of egret, —As though ic were possible for our age to be reborn! ‘Travelin dreams over the enchanted hilsides, Where once my youth had smiled! In the bright sunlight of vicworious memory [smell the fle roses looming again in bouguets Et monter a mes yeux des larmes, Qu'en mon carr Mes vingt ans avaient oubliges! ‘And teas rise to my eyes ‘That in my heart At ewenty had been forgten! Andante moderato d. = 66 au ciel bru-meux, aux sempre legato (Copyighe © 2001 by HAL LEONARD CORPORATION Tncmatonal Copyright Secured Al RightsReserved147 ri-zons na - vrants, BU i sempre ff des cou -chants, du tor- rent, cou -ler, 7148, —— jours faits de mélan- co - li Vai. le des re-grets ——~__” crese. molto ge re-nais - Par - cou - rent en= chan -tés, sempre P aoe ———> au clair so-leil du. sou - ve-nir_ —_vain-queur, en bow -quets150 crescendo sempre al fine mes yeux Jar - mes, Qu'en mon coeur a-vaient