The Music Pavilion | The musicians have gone away

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by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Le pavillon de la musique

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Les musiciennes sont parties.
Tulipes qu'elles avaient mises dans les vases de jade
s'inclinent vers les luths et semblent écouter encore.

Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade; poésies chinoises, Piazza, 1926, p. 24.

Text Authorship:

by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le pavillon de la musique", appears in La flûte de jade [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):

by Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Le pavillon de la musique", op. 67 no. 3 (1931) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karel Goeyvaerts , "Le pavillon de la musique", 1949 [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugeniusz Knapik (b. 1951), "Le pavillon de la musique", 1973, copyright © 1980 [ soprano and orchestra ], from La flûte de jade, no. 1, Kraków : Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne [sung text not yet checked]
by Julien-Fernand Vaubourgoin (1880 - 1952), "Le pavillon de la musique", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Bordeaux, Paris : Delmouly-Degorge, G. Berger [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Music Pavilion", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2024-10-27
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Word count: 21

The Music Pavilion

Language: English after the French (Français)

The musicians have gone away. 
Tulips that they had placed in vases of jade
bend towards the lutes and seem to listening still.

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a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le pavillon de la musique", appears in La flûte de jade
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-17
Line count: 3
Word count: 23