Un grand sommeil noir
| Un grand sommeir noir | |
|---|---|
| Song by Edgard Varèse | |
| English | A Deep Black Sleep |
| Year | 1906 or earlier |
| Period | 20th century |
| Form | Song |
| Occasion | Juvenilia work |
| Text | Paul Verlaine's Un grand sommeil noir |
| Language | French |
| Time | 4 4 |
| Composed | Paris — 1906 |
| Dedication | Léon Claude Mercerot |
| Published | Paris — 1906 |
| Publisher | Benjamin Roudanez (later Éditions Salabert) |
| Duration | 3 minutes |
| Movements | 1 |
| Scoring | Voice (soprano) and piano |
Un grand sommeil noir (French: A Deep Black Sleep) is the earliest surviving composition by French composer Edgard Varèse. Written for voice and piano, the piece was finished in 1906 or before, more than a decade earlier than the next surviving composition, Amériques.