Work
Hector Berlioz Composer
Pleure, pauvre Colette, for 2 voices and piano, H.11
Performances: 2
Tracks: 2
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Pleure, pauvre Colette, for 2 voices and piano, H.11Year: 1822
Genre: Solo Song / Lied / Chanson
Pr. Instrument: Voice
Berlioz left his home, the village of La Côte-St-André (between Grenoble and Lyon), for Paris at the end of October 1821 to study medicine. But from his arrival he began to waver between medicine and music. He brought with him several romances and during his first year, following the course of a diligent—if often horrified and revolted—medical student, he composed still more, several of which he published at his own expense. Among these, Pleure pauvre Colette, probably dating from early 1822—a ditty about a jilted shepherdess—is naïve and sentimental, but shows some skill in balancing the "deux voix égales" called for.
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