by Tu Fu (712 - 770)
Translation by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917), as Judith Walter
Nuages dans l'eau
Language: French (Français)  after the Chinese (中文)
Mon bateau glisse rapidement sur le fleuve, et je regarde dans l'eau. Au-dessus est le grand ciel, où se promènent les nuages. Le ciel est aussi dans le fleuve ; quand un nuage passe sur la lune, je le vois passer dans l'eau. Et je crois que mon bateau glisse sur le ciel. Alors je songe que ma bien-aimée se reflète ainsi dans mon cœur.
Confirmed with Judith Gautier, Le Livre de Jade Plon, Paris, 1933. Première édition sous le pseudonyme de Judith Walter.
Text Authorship:
- by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917), as Judith Walter, "Nuages dans l'eau", appears in Le livre de jade, 1902 edition, Paris: Lemerre, first published 1867 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Tu Fu (712 - 770) [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), "Nuages dans l'eau", 1907, published 1908 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes de Jade, deuxième cahier, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Au Ménestrel, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by Henriette Puig-Roget.
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Adolphe Thalasso (1858 - 1919) , "Au fil de l'eau", appears in Anthologie de l'Amour asiatique, in 10. Chine, no. 46, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1906 ; composed by René Lenormand.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917) , "Sur le Fleuve Tchou", appears in Le livre de jade, 1867 edition, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 ; composed by Henriette Puig-Roget.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Auf dem Flusse", appears in Die chinesische Flöte ; composed by Hans Altmann, Gunnar de Frumerie, Friedrich Karl Grimm, Krzysztof Penderecki, Anatol Provaznik, Felix Paul Weingartner.
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