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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Violon de Lune
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
L'âme du violon tremblant,
Plein de silence et d'harmonie,
Rêve dans sa boîte vernie
Un rêve languide et troublant.

Qui donc fera d'un bras dolent
Vibrer dans la nuit infinie
L'âme du violon tremblant,
Plein de silence et d'harmonie ?

La Lune, d'un rais mince et lent,
Avec des douceurs d'agonie.
Caresse de son ironie,
Comme un lumineux archet blanc,
L'âme du violon tremblant.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Violon de Lune", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Moon as Violin", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-12-15
Line count: 13
Word count: 63

Die Violine
 (Sung text for setting by J. Marx)
 See original
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Der Violine zarte Seele, 
Voll schweigend reger Harmonien, 
Träumt nun im offenen Gehäuse 
Nachzitternder Erregung Träume. 

Wer wird aus solcher Ruh sie stören 
Aufs neu mit schmerzensmächt'gem Arm, 
Der Violine zarte Seele 
Voll schweigend reger Harmonien? 

Ein feiner zager Strahl des Mondes, 
Mit letzten Schmerzen süßer Qual 
Ironisch tändelnd -- reizt und reget 
Leis mit dem silberhellen Bogen 
Der Violine zarte Seele.

Composition:

    Set to music by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Die Violine", 1909, published 1910 [ medium voice and piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, I. Folge, Nr.7

Text Authorship:

  • by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Die Violine", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Violon de Lune", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-06-08
Line count: 13
Word count: 62

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