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En ce temps-là fut annoncé la venue de Bouddha sur la terre. Il se fit dans le ciel un grand bruit de nuages. Les Dieux, agitant leurs éventails et leurs vêtements, répandirent d'innombrables fleurs merveilleuses. Des parfums mystérieux et doux se croisèrent comme des lianes dans le souffle tiède de cette nuit de printemps. La perle divine de la pleine lune s'arrêta sur le palais de marbre, gardé par vingt mille éléphants, pareils à des collines grises de la couleur de nuages.
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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)
- by Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961), "Bénarès: Naissance de Bouddha", op. 3 no. 3 (1912), published 1914, first performed 1914 [medium voice and piano], from Quatre Poèmes Hindous, no. 3, Éd. Durand [text verified 1 time]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Benares: Geburt des Buddha", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Zu jener Zeit wurde das Kommen des Buddha auf Erden angekündigt. Es erhob sich am Himmel ein gewaltiges Brausen. Die Götter schwenkten ihre Fächer, bewegten ihr Gewand und streuten herrliche Blüten aus in großer Zahl. Geheimnisvolle, süße Düfte verschlangen sich wie Lianen im lauen Hauch dieser Frühlingsnacht. Die göttliche Perle des Vollmonds verharrte über dem marmornen Palast, bewacht von zwanzigtausend Elefanten, dem Grau der Wolkenberge gleich.
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- 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.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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- a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2015-08-08
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