W316: Partout!

Publisher: Enoch
Date: 1895
Instrumentation: voice: High or Medium

Dedicated to Madame Melba. in CM (tenor or soprano) and AM (baritone or mezzo-soprano)Text by Charles Fuster. The carefree poem celebrates how everything changes for the better and comes to life when touched by love. Chaminade highlights this idea by repeating the word partout (“everywhere”), emphasizing that wherever love appears, it transforms its surroundings with joy and delight.