by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund
Während ich mich über meine Stickerei am...
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Chinese (中文)
Während ich mich über meine Stickerei am Fenster bückte, stach mich meine Nadel in den Daumen. Weiße Rose, die ich stickte, wurde rote Rose. In der kriegerischen Weite bei des Vaterlandes Söhnen weilt mein Freund, vergießt vielleicht sein Blut. Rossehufe hör' ich dröhnen. Ist's sein Pferd? Es ist mein Herz, das wie ein Fohlen tut. Tränen fallen mir aus meinen Blicken übern Rahmen in die Stickerein. Und ich will die Tränen in die Seide sticken, und sie sollen weiße Perlen sein.
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Confirmed with Dumpfe Trommel und berauschtes Gong. Nachdichtungen chinesischer Kriegslyrik von Klabund, Insel Bücherei. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1915, page 25.
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "Die weisse und die rote Rose ", first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Der rote und die weiße Rose", 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Dumpfe Trommel und berauschtes Gong, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Rudolf) Walther Hirschberg (1889 - 1960), "Die weiße und die rote Rose", op. 47b (Acht Lieder) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Béla Reinitz (1878 - 1943), "Die weiße und die rote Rose", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Klabund-Lieder, no. 3, New York, Universal Editions [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alice Samter (1908 - 2004), "Die weiße und rote Rose", 1960 [ voice, gong, marimba and piano ], from Sechs Wechselgänge, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arthur Farwell.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Die rothe Rose", appears in Die chinesische Flöte ; composed by Hermann Albus, José Berr, Clemens von Franckenstein, Maria Herz, Leonard Pieter Joseph Michielsen, James Martin Simon.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Julia Weissberg.
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