Editing Li Bai (section)

====Gustav Mahler====
[[Gustav Mahler]] integrated four of Li Bai's works into his symphonic song cycle ''[[Das Lied von der Erde]]''. These were derived from free German translations by [[Hans Bethge (poet)|Hans Bethge]], published in an anthology called {{lang|de|Die chinesische Flöte}} (''The Chinese Flute''),<ref>Bethge, Hans (2001). ''Die Chinesische Flöte'' (YinYang Media Verlag, Kelkheim, Germany). {{ISBN|978-3-9806799-5-4}}. Re-issue of the 1907 edition (Insel Verlag, Leipzig).</ref> Bethge based his versions on the collection ''Chinesische Lyrik'' by Hans Heilmann (1905). Heilmann worked from pioneering 19th-century translations into French: three by the [[Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys|Marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys]] and one (only distantly related to the Chinese) by [[Judith Gautier]]. Mahler freely changed Bethge's text.