Pour aller retrouver son fiancé, sous le grand saule qui est au bord du fleuve, elle avait mis ses deux plus belles robes. Lorsque le soleil commença de décliner, ils causaient encore tendrement. Tout à coup, la jeune fille se leva, honteuse, parce qu'elle n'avait plus sa troisième robe: l'ombre du saule.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La jeune fille nue", 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 Li-Chuang-Kia (1703 - 1758) [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), "La jeune fille nue", from Chansons orientales, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das nackte Mädchen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
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