Ihr Harfenspiel hörend | Ihre Hände, weiße Jade an einem Fenster zum Schnee

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by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

On hearing her play the harp

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: GER

Her hands of white jade by a window of snow
Are glimmering on a golden fretted harp
And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yü,
She touches a wrong note now and then.

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Text Authorship:

by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "On hearing her play the harp", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li Duan (743 - 782), "聽箏"
- Go to the text page.

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

by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "On hearing her play the harp", op. 116 no. 2 (1962) [ soprano and harp ], from The Jade Mountain, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ihr Harfenspiel hörend", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
Line count: 4
Word count: 34

Ihr Harfenspiel hörend

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Ihre Hände, weiße Jade an einem Fenster zum Schnee,
schimmmern auf einer goldnen, verzierten Harfe,
und um den wachsamen Blick Chou Yüs auf sich zu lenken,
spielt sie zuweilen einen falschen Ton.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in English by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "On hearing her play the harp", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li Duan (743 - 782), "聽箏"
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2008-08-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 32