How would you translate this french sentence? (English or German)
"Le pupitre de violoncelles est le pendant de celui des violons pour les cordes graves"

I can unterstand the seperate words, but I don't really get the context.

Thanks in advance!

Question

How would you translate this french sentence? (English or German)
"Le pupitre de violoncelles est le pendant de celui des violons pour les cordes graves"

I can unterstand the seperate words, but I don't really get the context.

Thanks in advance!

Answer

In your sentence, fr. 'pendant' means en. 'counterpart.' 
'The area with the cellos is the violins counterpart, for the deep cords.' Or something like that. I know nothing about opera, so I'm sorry I can't help more. 
I don't know German. At all. :(

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