Sur ma flûte d'ébène j'ai joué, pour toi, l'air le plus passionné que je connaissais, mais tu regardais les pivoines, sans m'écouter. Puis je t'ai donné une poésie où j'avais célébré ta beauté, mais tu l'as déchirée et tu en as jeté les morceaux dans le lac, parce qu'il n'avait pas de nénuphars, m'as-tu dit. Je voulais te donner un merveilleux saphir, limpide et froid comme une nuit d'hiver, mais je l'ai gardé pour qu'il me rapelle ton coeur.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "L'indifférente", 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 Wan-Tsi [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), "L'indifférente", from Chansons orientales, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Indifférente", op. 36 no. 5 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 5, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max d'Ollone (1875 - 1959), "L'indifférente", published 2002 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les chants d'ailleurs, no. 3, Paris : Heugel : A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre Paubon (1910 - 1995), "L'indifférente", published 1949 [ voice, flute and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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