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by Wan-Tsi
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Sur ma flûte d'ébène, j'ai joué, pour...
Language: French (Français)  after the Chinese (中文) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Sur ma flûte d'ébène, j'ai joué, pour toi,
l'air le plus passionné que je connaissais,
mais tu regardais les pivoines, sans m'écouter.
[Je]1 t'ai donné une poésie
où j'avais célébré ta beauté,
mais tu l'as déchirée
et tu en as jeté les morceaux dans le lac,
parce qu'il n'avait pas de nénuphars, m'as-tu dit.
Je voulais te donner un merveilleux saphir,
limpide et froid comme une nuit d'hiver,
mais je l'ai gardé pour qu'il me rapelle ton cœur.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   H. Badings 

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, pages 97-98.

1 Badings: "Puis je"

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "L'indifférente", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Wan-Tsi  [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

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

  • by Henk Badings (1907 - 1987), "L'indifférente", from Chansons orientales, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Indifférente", op. 36 no. 5 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 5, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Max d'Ollone (1875 - 1959), "L'indifférente", published 2002 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les chants d'ailleurs, no. 3, Paris : Heugel : A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pierre Paubon (1910 - 1995), "L'indifférente", published 1949 [ voice, flute and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
Line count: 11
Word count: 79

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