Bambushain | Fern im Hain -- allein

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by Wang Wei (701 - 761)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

竹里馆

Language: Chinese (中文)

Our translations: GER

独坐幽篁里，
弹琴复长啸。
深林人不知，
明月来相照。

Text Authorship:

by Wang Wei (701 - 761), "竹里馆" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Bohumil Mathesius (1888 - 1952) ; composed by Pavel Haas.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959) ; composed by Georges Auric.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pavel Haas.
Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Erik Blomberg (1894 - 1965) , appears in Jadeberget, kinesisk lyrik från Tangdynastin 618-906 , first published 1944 ; composed by Algot Haquinius, Hilding Rosenberg.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Witter Bynner) , "In a retreat among bamboos", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929
ENG English (Herbert Allen Giles) , "Overlooked", appears in Chinese Poetry in English Verse, first published 1898
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Bambushain", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-29
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Bambushain

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Chinese (中文)

Fern im Hain -- allein,
nur meiner Laute Ton.
Niemand kennt den Hain.
Mir glänzt nur der Mond.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Chinese (中文) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2014 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Wang Wei (701 - 761), "竹里馆"
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-10
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Word count: 17