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by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971)

獨坐敬亭山
Language: Chinese (中文) 
眾鳥高飛盡
孤雲去獨閒
相看兩不厭
唯有敬亭山

Text Authorship:

  • by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "獨坐敬亭山" [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , "The Chinting mountain", first published 1922 ; composed by Jacob Avshalomov, Phyllis Campbell.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) , "Die Beständigen" ; composed by Helmut Barbe, Henk Bijvanck, Artur Immisch, Edvard Moritz.
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  • Also set in Slovenian (Slovenščina), a translation by Ferdo Kozak (1894 - 1957) , copyright © ; composed by Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-03-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 4

Flocks of birds have flown high and away
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
Flocks of birds have flown high and away;
A solitary drift of cloud, too, has gone, wandering on.
And I sit alone with the Ching-ting Peak, towering beyond.
We never grow tired of each other, the mountain and I.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), "The Chinting mountain", first published 1922 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "獨坐敬亭山"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Jacob Avshalomov (1919 - 2013), "The Ch'ing T'ing mountain" [ voice and piano ], from From the Chinese, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Phyllis Campbell (1891 - 1974), "The Ching-Ting Mountain", published 2018 [ voice and piano ], from Poems by Li-Po, no. 3, Wirripang Pty Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-03-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 39

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