D’un soir triste

Composer: BOULANGER, Lili
  • D’un soir triste (Of a Sad Evening) is one of Boulanger’s final works. She began work on it in 1917 and completed it in 1918, the year of her death.1
  • Boulanger created several scorings for this work: piano trio; cello and piano; full orchestra.2
  • The orchestral score to D’un soir triste is in Nadia Boulanger’s handwriting.3 Near the end of her life, Lili Boulanger’s illness weakened her to the extent that she struggled with the physical act of writing.4
  • Boulanger’s biographer Caroline Potter observes that this work’s main theme is similar to that of Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps. Both themes bear a similar melodic contour, and both make used of dotted rhythms.5

Sources

  1. Annegret Fauser and Robert Orledge. “Boulanger, (Marie-Juliette Olga) Lili.” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed June 23, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003704. 
  2. Ibid
  3. Caroline Potter, Nadia and Lili Boulanger (London: Routledge, 2016), 122.
  4. Sylvia Typaldos, “Lili Boulanger: D’un soir triste, for string trio (or cello) & piano (or orchestra),” AllMusic, accessed June 23, 2021, https://www.allmusic.com/composition/dun-soir-triste-for-string-trio-or-cello-piano-or-orchestra-mc0002389137.
  5. Potter, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, 122.

Cut IDs

22563