Hymne à l'amour

What you get, immediately after purchase
📄 The sheet music as a PDF, printable and readable on a tablet
🎧 The MP3 audio recording, to learn the piece by ear
✉️ A download link by email, with no account to create

This sheet music has 4 pages.

Hymne à l'amour is a song by Édith Piaf, who wrote the lyrics, set to music by Marguerite Monnot. Piaf premiered it in 1949 and recorded it in 1950, and it remains tied to Marcel Cerdan, the man she wrote it for, who was killed in a plane crash that same year. Covered countless times, in French and in English as If You Love Me (Really Love Me), it reached a huge new audience in 2024, when Céline Dion sang it from the Eiffel Tower at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. Its broad, singing melody, rising towards a chorus everyone carries in their head, finds a natural voice on the accordion. A song to keep for the evenings when you feel like playing for someone.

HYMNE A L'AMOUR - Paroles d'Edith Piaf, Musique de Marguerite Monnot, © Editions Raoul Breton