Lahore: Eine einsame Tanne | Eine Tanne steht einsam auf einem Berg

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by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Un sapin isolé se dresse sur une...

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Our translations: GER

Un sapin isolé se dresse sur une montagne
Aride du Nord. Il sommeille.
La glace et la neige l'environne
D'un manteau blanc.

Il rêve d'un palmier qui là-bas
Dans l'Orient lointain se désole,
Solitaire et taciturne,
Sur la pente de son rocher brûlant.

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Text Authorship:

by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 28 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 33
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961), "Lahore: Une sapin isolé", op. 3 no. 2 (1912), published 1914, first performed 1914 [medium voice and piano], from Quatre Poèmes Hindous, no. 2, Éd. Durand [
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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Lahore: Eine einsame Tanne", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Lahore: Eine einsame Tanne

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Eine Tanne steht einsam auf einem Berg
im dorren Norden. Sie schläft.
Eis und Schnee umhüllen sie 
mit einem weißen Mantel.

Sie träumt von einer Palme, die dort unten
im fernen Orient traurig steht,
allein und schweigend
am brennend heißen Felsenhang.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 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 French (Français) by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 28
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 33
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2015-08-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 41