Nuit d'étoiles
Arrangement by Denis Rouger 1880
From the very first bars, shimmering piano arpeggios conjure up the vision of a starry night. Or are these the sounds of sad Lyra, the lyrical narrator of Théodore de Banville’s poem? In his composition, Claude Debussy only sets the first, second and fourth verses to music. Although the first stanza is repeated as a refrain, the entire piece is through-composed. In quiet melancholy, the memory of lost love shines forth: The stars are the eyes of the beloved.
This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, german translationhtml file, singing text, german translation (Sample)SternennachtSternennacht, unter deinen Schleiern,
unter deiner Brise und deinen Düften,
träume ich, traurige, seufzende Lyra,
von verflossener Liebe.Die ruhige Melancholie ist
im Grunde meines Herzens aufgegangen,
und ich höre die Seele meiner Liebsten
im verträumten Wald erschauern.Sternennacht …
Ich sehe erneut an unserem Brunnen
deinen Blick, blau wie der Himmel;
diese Rose ist dein Atem,
und diese Sterne sind deine Augen.Sternennacht …
Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823–1891)
Übersetzung: Christiane Rouger-Ortwein (*1977)
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)Nuit d’étoiles
Nuit d’étoiles,
Sous tes voiles,
Sous ta brise et tes parfums,
Triste lyre
Qui soupire,
Je rêve aux amours défunts.La sereine mélancolie
Vient éclore au fond de mon cœur,
Et j’entends l’âme de ma mie
Tressaillir dans le bois rêveur.Nuit d’étoiles …
Je revois à notre fontaine
Tes regards bleus comme les cieux ;
Cette rose, c’est ton haleine,
Et ces étoiles sont tes yeux.Nuit d’étoiles …
Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823–1891)
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Composer
Claude Debussy
| 1862-1918
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Songwriter / Librettist
Théodore de Banville
| 1823-1891
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Arranger
Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger gained his initial musical experience as the son of a Parisian family of musicians and during his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he received first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint.
He was a lecturer and choirmaster at the University of Paris-Sorbonne for 20 years and choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral for 10 years. He is honorary conductor of the Parisian church La Madeleine. He also collaborates with numerous ensembles in Germany. He has been invited as a guest conductor by radio choirs, the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Choir and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Concerts have taken him to Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival).
He gives master classes in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany, as well as in Switzerland.
Denis Rouger has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts since 2011. The chamber choir he founded at the university in the fall of 2011 won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014.
In addition to his work as a choirmaster, he composes and arranges French and German songs for choir. His arrangements on the CDs Kennst Du das Land ... and ... wo die Zitronen blühn (Carus) were well received by the press and radio. In collaboration with Carus-Verlag, he has edited the choir book Französische Chormusik, which received the German Music Edition Award “Best Edition” in 2019.
In 2016, Denis Rouger founded the figure humaine kammerchor (www.figurehumaine.de), with which he regularly gives concerts at renowned festivals.
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