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Порою музыка мой дух влечёт, как море; К тебе, к тебе, звезда моя, В тумане сумрачном, в эфирных волн просторе В тот час стремлюся я... И вот крепчает грудь при яростном напоре... И, парус распустя, По бешеным хребтам чернеющего моря Несется вверх ладья. И снова грудь моя полна безумной страстью, И снова я лечу над гибельною пастью, Но вдруг затихнет всё, и в глубине пучин, Сквозь блеск воды зеркальной, я созерцаю вновь, Безмолвный и печальный, отчаянье своё.
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis, no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Musique", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 69, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Музыка", op. 26 no. 5 (1908), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Стихотворений из сборника Эллисъ «Иммортели» (10 Stikhotvorenij iz sbornika Ellis 'Immorteli') = 10 Poems from Ellis's Immortelles, no. 5, Berlin : Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hedwig Lachmann)
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 77
Music often transports me like a sea! Toward my pale star, Under a ceiling of mist or vast ether, I set sail; My chest thrust out and my lungs filled Like a canvas, I scale the slopes of wave upon wave That the night obscures; I feel vibrating within me all the passions Of ships in distress; The good wind and the tempest with its convulsions Over the vast gulf cradle me. At other times, dead calm, great mirror Of my despair!
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis, no title
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Musique", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 69, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-21
Line count: 14
Word count: 82