Five songs on verses by Paul Verlaine for tenor and piano, op. 9

Fundățeanca, July 14, 1941 – Geneva, March 20, 1945
Dedication: “A Hugues Cuenod”

1. A une femme
2. Green
3-4. Deux Ariettes oubliées:
a. Il pleure dans mon coeur
b. Le piano que baise une main frêle
5. Sérénade

“In his letters from 1941, Lipatti mentions « six » songs. He revised their manuscript several times, which explains the two different dates written on the last page. The Romanian Composers’ and Musicologists’ Union Library holds several lieder drafts, unfinished and undated (shelf mark 3379, 3384 and 3385) (Bărgăuanu, Grigore and Tănăsescu, Dragoș. Dinu Lipatti)

Mérimont, June 21, 1945
Dedications: no. 1 – “A ma mere”; no. 2 – “A Madeleine”; no. 3 – “A Marie Sarasin”; no. 4 – “A Germaine de Narros”

1. Sensation (on a poem by Arthur Rimbaud)
2. L’Amoureuse (on a poem by Paul Eluard)
3. Capitale de la douleur (on a poem by Paul Eluard)
4. Les pas (on a poem by Paul Valéry)

Montana, April 21, 1949
Dedication: “A Paul Sacher”

1. Prélude (Lento – Vivo – Lento)
2. Danse (Allegretto grazioso)
3. Nocturne (Andante espressivo)
4. Scherzo (Presto)

March 20, 1950
Dedication: “A Henri Dubois-Ferrière”

Allegro giocoso

Piano transcription
Bucharest, 1942 (?) – Geneva, August 13, 1950

First version:
1. Andante quasi allegretto
2. Moderato
3. Malinconico
4. Vivamente

Final version:
1. Andante tranquillo
2. Allegretto grazioso
3. Andante cantabile
4. Allegro deciso