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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Valse de Chopin
Language: French (Français) 
Comme un crachat sanguinolent,
De la bouche d'une phtisique,
Il tombe de cette musique
Un charme morbide et dolent.

Un son rouge - du rêve blanc
Avive la pâle tunique,
Comme un crachat sanguinolent
De la bouche d'une phtisique.

Le thème doux et violent
De la valse mélancolique
Me laisse une saveur physique,
Un fade arrière-goût troublant,
Comme un crachat sanguinolent.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Valse de Chopin", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Valse de Chopin", appears in Pierrot lunaire ; composed by Joseph Marx, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 60

Valse de Chopin
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN
Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts
Färbt die Lippen einer Kranken,
Also ruht auf diesen Tönen
Ein vernichtungssüchtger Reiz.

Wilder Lust Accorde [stören]1
Der Verzweiflung eisgen Traum -
Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts
Färbt die Lippen einer Kranken.

Heiß und jauchzend, süß und schmachtend,
Melancholisch düstrer Walzer,
Kommst mir nimmer aus den Sinnen!
Haftest mir an den Gedanken,
Wie ein blasser Tropfen Bluts!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Marx 

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Confirmed with Albert Giraud, Pierrot Lunaire, deutsch von Otto Erich Hartleben, Der Verlag deutscher Phantasten, Berlin, 1892, page 26.

1 Marx: "tönen"

Text Authorship:

  • by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Valse de Chopin", appears in Pierrot lunaire [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Valse de Chopin", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Valse de Chopin", 1909, published 1910 [ medium voice, piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, I. Folge, Nr.25 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Valse de Chopin", op. 21 no. 5 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Valse de Chopin", 1905?, published 1905 [ high voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 3, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "蕭邦圓舞曲", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Chopin Waltz", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Valse de Chopin", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Valzer di Chopin", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Ein vals av Chopin", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 62

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