by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
La danse des dieux
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
J'avais mis toute mon âme dans une chanson Que j'ai chanté aux hommes. Et ils ont ri . . . J'ai pris mon luth. Je suis allé m'asseoir au sommet d'une montagne Et j'ai chanté la chanson Que les hommes n'avaient pas comprise. Le soleil se couchait au rhythme de ma chanson. Les dieux ont dansé sur les nuages rouges Qui flottaient dans le ciel.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "La danse des dieux" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762) [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 Rosalie Marie Wertheim (1888 - 1949), "La danse des dieux", 1939 [ soprano, flute and harp or piano ], from Trois Chansons pour soprano, flûte et harpe, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by (Stephanie) Hélène Swarth (1859 - 1941) , "De dans der goden", subtitle: "Li-Tai-Po", appears in De Chineesche fluit ; composed by Simon Pluister.
- Also set in English, a translation by Stuart Merrill (1863 - 1915) ; composed by Arthur Farwell, Margaret Ruthven Lang.
- Also set in English, a translation by Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946) ; composed by Frederick Septimus Kelly.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Der Tanz der Götter" ; composed by Lise Maria Mayer, Anatol Provaznik.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Volkmar Andreae, Kurt Brüggemann.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Heilmann (1859 - 1930) ; composed by Adolf Schreiber.
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