by Tsao Chang Ling (1719 - 1763)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Nocturne
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
Our translations: ENG
Nonchalante, son luth à la main, elle roulait le rideau de perles, afin que l'odeur du printemps inondât sa chambre, mais elle a vu la lune, et c'est le chagrin qui est entré. Le visage dans son bras replié, elle évoque un jardin bleui de lune, où elle entendit, jadis, des paroles d'amour.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, pages 82-83.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Nocturne", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Tsao Chang Ling (1719 - 1763) [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 Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884 - 1964), "Nocturne ", published 1929 [ medium voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 3, Paris, Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Nocturne", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 4, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Odette Gartenlaub (1922 - 2014), "Nocturne", 1950 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Franz Toussaint, no. 3, Éd. Klarthe [sung text not yet checked]
- by Manuel M. Ponce (1883 - 1948), "Nocturne", 1932, first performed 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Cinco poemas chinos, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-28
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