by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Émile Steinilber-Oberlin (b. 1878) and by Hidétaké Iwamura
Les feuilles d'érable
Language: French (Français) after the Japanese (日本語)
Sais-tu pourquoi la lune d'automne répand sur la montagne sa clarté délicieuse ? C'est pour que nous puissions compter, tous deux, ces feuilles d'érable qui tombent, une à une, qui tombent...
Confirmed with Oberlin, Steinilber & Iwamura, Hidetaké, Chansons des Geishas, Aux éditions G. Crès. Paris - 1926 p.141
Text Authorship:
- by Émile Steinilber-Oberlin (b. 1878), "Les feuilles d'érable", appears in Chansons des Geishas, first published 1926 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Hidétaké Iwamura , "Les feuilles d'érable", appears in Chansons des Geishas, first published 1926 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [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 Rodolphe Théophile Cahen d'Anvers, marquis de Torre Alfina , as Armand Bolsène, "Les feuilles d'érable", published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons des geishas, no. 10, Paris, Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Gil-Marchex (1894 - 1970), "Les feuilles d'érable", published 1935, first performed 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Geishas, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Magasin Musical Pierre Schneider [sung text not yet checked]
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