白鹭下秋水， 孤飞如坠霜。 心闲且未去， 独立沙洲傍。
Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚" [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
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 French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 ; composed by Odette Gartenlaub, Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Niklaus Aeschbacher, Volkmar Andreae, John Borstlap, Kurt Brüggemann, Walther Hirschberg, Artur Immisch, Josef Schelb, Ernst Ludwig Uray.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Joseph Gustav Mraczek, Willy Schneider (attribution uncertain).
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Ethan Fan) , "White Egret", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Dan Shen
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-05
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Ce grand flocon de neige était un héron, qui vient de se poser sur le lac bleu. Immobile á l'extrémité d'un banc de sable, le héron blanc regarde l'Hiver.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Odette Gartenlaub (1922 - 2014), "Le Héron blanc", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Franz Toussaint, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Armande de Polignac (1876 - 1962), "Le Héron blanc", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 3, Genève, Éd. A. Henn, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-19
Line count: 4
Word count: 29