L'épouse d'un guerrier est assise près de sa fenêtre. Le cœur lourd, elle brode une rose blanche sur un coussin de soie. Elle s'est piqué le doigt ! Son sang coule sur la rose blanche, qui devient une rose rouge. Sa pensée va retrouver son bienaimé qui est à la guerre et dont le sang rougit peut-être la neige. Elle entend le galop d'un cheval . . . Son bienaimé arrive-t-il, enfin ? Ce n'est que son coeur qui bat à grands coups dans sa poitrine . . . Elle se penche davantage sur le coussin, et elle brode d'argent ses larmes qui entourent la rose rouge.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) [author's text not yet checked 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 Armande de Polignac (1876 - 1962), "La rose rouge", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 7, Genève, Éd. A. Henn, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arthur Farwell.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Die rothe Rose", appears in Die chinesische Flöte ; composed by Hermann Albus, Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein, Léonard Pieter Joseph Michielsen, James Martin Simon.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Walther Hirschberg, Béla Reinitz.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Julia Weissberg.
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