Ce grand flocon de neige était un héron, qui vient de se poser sur le lac bleu. Immobile á l'extrémité d'un banc de sable, le héron blanc regarde l'Hiver.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le héron blanc", 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-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Odette Gartenlaub (1922 - 2014), "Le Héron blanc", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Franz Toussaint, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Armande de Polignac (1876 - 1962), "Le Héron blanc", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 3, Genève, Éd. A. Henn, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-19
Line count: 4
Word count: 29
The white and heavy snowflake was like a heron, which has but just alighted on the lake. Motionless on the sandbank's edge The snowwhite heron dreamily gazes on the white snow.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Armande de Polignac (1876 - 1962), "The white heron", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 3, Genève, Éd. A. Henn, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-19
Line count: 4
Word count: 31