SSATB Choir, Piano -
Grade 4
SKU:
CA.928000
Composed by
Gabriel Faure. Arranged
by Denis Rouger. Carus
digital: Extra digital
products. Fleur jetée.
Full Score. Composed
1885. Op. 39,2. Duration
2 minutes. Carus Verlag
#928000. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.928000).
ISBN 9790007299330.
Key: F minor. French.
Text: Silvestre,
Armand.
This
setting of Fleur
jetée is
often
called Fauréâ
۪s Erlk̦nig.
The hammering ferocity of
the piano accompaniment
and the drama of the song
in fact recall
Schubert’s musical
setting of
Goethe’s
ballad Erlköni
g. However, in Armand
Silvestre’s <
i>Fleur jetée, it
is lost love to which it
is dedicated. Just as a
flower, carelessly
plucked and thrown away,
is blown by the wind and
withers, so the wind
carries the
“madness†of
the unhappy lover away
and lets his heart
wither. Just as a
flower, carelessly
plucked and thrown away,
is blown by the wind and
withers, so the wind
carries the
“madness†of
the unhappy lover away
and lets his heart
wither.
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.