Introduction
This section is intended
to provide the texts
and libretti of Berlioz’s vocal music,
including his operas, masses, songs and other works accompanied with voices. All texts are given only
in the original language (mostly French, except for sacred works in Latin).
For a full listing of all Berlioz’s musical
works see Berlioz: A Listing of his Musical Works.
You will also find details of major recordings of most of the works listed here in
our Berlioz Discography
pages.
This page is also available in
French.
Acknowledgement
We would like to express our deep
gratitude to Mr Pepijn van Doesburg,
without whose help this section would not have been possible; he provided us with
almost all of Berlioz
libretti and texts, and suggested
the creation of this
section.
We are most grateful to
our friend Gene Halaburt for kindly providing us with the text of the Invitation à
louer Dieu and Edouard Bouscatel’s 1860
French translation of the text of Erlkönig (Le Roi des Aulnes) which was used
by Berlioz for his orchestral version. Our thanks also go to Alexei Zubkov for
his contribution to the page on Les Francs-Juges, and to M. Martial Boens
for his new French translation of Erlkönig (Le Roi des Aulnes).
Copyright
notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are
covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication
or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are
reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal.
Note: The numbers in brackets refer to
the numbers in D Kern Holoman’s Catalogue
of the Works of Hector Berlioz (Bärenreiter, 1987).
| Masses
and other sacred works Messe Solennelle [H20]
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem) [H75]
Te Deum [H118]
L’Enfance
du Christ [H130]
Operas
Benvenuto Cellini
– Paris 1 version
[H76]
Benvenuto Cellini
– Weimar version [H76]
Les Troyens [H133]
Béatrice et Bénédict [H138]
Le Freyschütz (Weber, recitatives by Berlioz)
[H89]
Unfinished
operas
Les
Francs-Juges [H23]
(fragments)
La Nonne
sanglante [H91]
(fragments)
Orchestral
works with vocal accompaniment
Lélio ou le retour à la vie [H55]
Huit Scènes de Faust [H33]
La Damnation de Faust [H111]
Roméo et Juliette [H79]
Prix
de Rome cantatas
La Mort d’Orphée [H25]
Herminie [H29]
La Mort de Cléopâtre [H36]
La Mort de Sardanapale [H50]
(surviving fragments)
Les
Nuits d’été
Villanelle
[H82]
Le
Spectre de la rose [H83]
Sur
les lagunes [H84]
Absence
[H85]
Au
cimetière [H86]
L’Île
inconnue [H87]
Neuf
mélodies – Irlande
Le
Coucher du soleil [H39]
Hélène [H40]
Chant guerrier [H41]
La
Belle voyageuse [H42]
Chanson à boire [H43]
Chant sacré [H44]
L’Origine de la harpe [H45]
Adieu,
Bessy! [H46]
Élégie (en prose) [H47] |
Other
vocal works
Le
Dépit de la bergère [H7]
Romance
de l’opéra des Blaïse et Babet [H8]
Faut
l’oublier [H8]
Romance
de L’Opéra Comique [H8]
Le
Maure jaloux [H9]
Amitié, reprends ton empire [H10]
Pleure, pauvre Colette [H11]
Canon libre à la quinte [H14]
Le
Montagnard exilé [H15]
Toi qui
l’aimas, verse des pleurs [H16]
Resurrexit [H20B]
Scène héroïque (La révolution
grecque) [H21]
Nocturne à deux voix [H31]
Le
Ballet des ombres [H37]
Méditation religieuse [H56]
Quartetto e coro dei maggi [H59]
La
Captive [H60]
Le
Jeune pâtre breton
[H65]
Les
Champs [H67]
Sara la baigneuse [H69]
Je crois en vous [H70]
Le
Chant des Bretons
[H71]
Chansonnette de
Mr Léon de Wailly [H73]
Le
Cinq mai [H74]
Aubade [H78]
L’Apothéose
(Symphonie funèbre et triomphale) [H80]
La
Mort d’Ophélie [H92]
La
Belle Isabeau [H94]
Hymne à la France [H97]
Le
Chasseur danois [H104]
Zaïde
[H107]
Chant des chemins de fer [H110]
Prière du matin
[H112]
Le
Trébuchet
[H113]
Nessun maggior piacere [H114]
La
Menace des Francs [H117]
Le
Matin
[H125]
Petit oiseau
[H126]
L’Impériale [H129]
Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle
[H135]
Le
Temple universel [H137]
Veni
Creator [H141]
Tantum ergo [H142]
Fleurs
des landes [124]
(comprising Le
Matin, Petit
oiseau, Le
Trébuchet,
Le
Jeune pâtre breton and Le
Chant des Bretons,
as listed above)
Tristia
[H110]
(comprising Méditation religieuse,
La
Mort d’Ophélie, as listed above, and
Marche Funèbre pour
la dernière scène d’Hamlet – with wordless chorus)
Vox Populi
[H120]
(comprising Hymne à la France
and La
Menace des Francs, as listed above)
Feuillets d’album
[H121]
(comprising
Zaïde, Les Champs
and Chant des Chemins de Fer,
as listed above)
Arrangements
Hymne des Marseillais [H51]
Chant du neuf Thermidor [H51bis]
Pater noster [H123]
Chant des chérubins
(Adoremus) [H122]
Le Roi des Aulnes
(Erlkönig)
[H136] (including a new
French translation)
Invitation
à louer Dieu [H143]
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