Cette nuit, il neigeait dans le jardin Liang. J’avais froid, et tu ne t’en doutais pas. Je regardais [les grands arbres]1 sous lesquels, autrefois, je t’attendais. [Toute cette neige qui tombait sur notre passé…]2
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Moulaert: "les arbres de Jade"
2 omitted by Moulaert.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Souvenirs", 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 Tsao Chang Ling (1719 - 1763) [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 Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Souvenirs", 1917, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes chinois extraits de La Flûte de Jade de Franz Toussaint, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text checked 1 time]
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