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Tu as laissé tomber dans la poussière la tulipe rouge que je t'avais donnée. Je l'ai ramassée. Elle était devenue blanche. En ce bref instant, il avait neigé sur notre amour.
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Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La dernière promenade", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
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), "Dernière promenade", 1943, published 1960 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons orientales, no. 3, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "La dernière promenade", op. 36 no. 3 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 3, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Catherine d'Ollone, née Catherine de Pontière (1882 - 1954), "La dernière promenade", published 1928? [ low voice and piano ], from La Flûte de Jade, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Ngo gay ngy", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 6, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , 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: 5
Word count: 31
Du hast sie in den Staub fallen lassen, die rote Tulpe, die ich dir gegeben. Ich habe sie aufgehoben. Sie war weiß geworden. In diesem kurzen Augenblick war ein Schnee auf unsere Liebe gefallen.
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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.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La dernière promenade", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2015-09-22
Line count: 5
Word count: 34