by Sao Han (701 - 762)
Translation by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917)
La lune monte vers le cœur du ciel
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
La lune monte vers le cœur du ciel nocturne et s’y repose amoureusement. Sur le lac lentement remué, la brise du soir passe, passe, repasse en baisant l’eau heureuse. Oh ! quel accord serein résulte de l’union des choses qui sont faites pour s’unir ! Mais les choses qui sont faites pour s’unir s’unissent rarement.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Judith Walter (Judith Gautier), Le Livre de jade, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1867, pages 23-24. The author of the Chinese original is given as Sao-Nan.
Note: this is a prose text. The line-breaks have been added arbitrarily.
Text Authorship:
- by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917), "Un jeune poëte pense à sa bien-aimée qui habite de l’autre côté du fleuve", appears in Le livre de jade, 1867 edition, in 1. Les amoureux, no. 13, first published 1867 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Sao Han (701 - 762) [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 Gabriel-André Fabre (1858 - 1921), "De l'autre côté du fleuve", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice, violin or cello ad libitum, and piano ], from Poèmes de Jade, deuxième cahier, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Au Ménestrel, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Jules Schürmann (1873 - 1927) , "Een jonge dichter denkt aan zijne geliefde" ; composed by Daniel Ruyneman.
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by (Stephanie) Hélène Swarth (1859 - 1941) , "Een jonge dichter denkt aan de geliefde", subtitle: "Sao-Han", appears in De Chineesche fluit ; composed by Simon Pluister.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte", appears in Die chinesische Flöte ; composed by Walter Braunfels, Adolf Busch, Gottfried von Einem, Artur Immisch, Joseph Marx, Léonard Pieter Joseph Michielsen, Anatol Provaznik, Anna Teichmüller.
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This text was added to the website: 2019-05-06
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