Das nackte Mädchen | Ihren Verlobten

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by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

La jeune fille nue

Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: ENG GER

Pour aller retrouver son fiancé, 
sous le grand saule qui est au bord du fleuve,
elle avait mis ses deux plus belles robes.

Lorsque le soleil commença de décliner,
ils causaient encore, tendrement.
Tout à coup, [elle]¹ se leva, honteuse,
parce qu'elle n'avait plus sa troisième robe :
l'ombre du saule.

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, page 86.

¹ Badings: "la jeune fille"

Text Authorship:

by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La jeune fille nue", 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 Li-Chuang-Kia (1703 - 1758) [text unavailable]
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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 Henk Badings (1907 - 1987), "La jeune fille nue", from Chansons orientales, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Naked Girl", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das nackte Mädchen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

Das nackte Mädchen

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

Ihren Verlobten
unter der großen Weide am Fluss zu treffen,
hatte sie ihre beiden schönsten Kleider angelegt.

Die Sonne war am untergehen,
da sprachen sie noch zärtlich miteinander.
Plötzlich stand das Mädchen auf, verschämt,
weil sie nicht mehr ihr drittes Kleid hatte:
den Schatten der Weide.

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 Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La jeune fille nue", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Chuang-Kia (1703 - 1758) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2015-09-22
Line count: 8
Word count: 46