Nächtens im Garten bei mir | Nächtens im Garten bei mir

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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Ночью в саду у меня

Language: Russian (Русский) after the Armenian (հայերեն)

Our translations: CHI ENG FRE GER

Ночью в саду у меня
Плачет плакучая ива,
И безутешна она 
Ивушка, грустная ива.

Раннее утро блеснёт,
Нежная девушка-зорька
Ивушке, плачущей горько,
Слёзы кудрями [отрёт]¹.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), no title, written 1916, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Armenian (հայերեն) by Avetik Sahak Isahakyan (1875 - 1957) [text unavailable]
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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 Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ночью в саду у меня", op. 38 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six songs)) no. 1 (1916) [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "花园之中夜色烈", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "At night in my garden", copyright © 2020
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La nuit dans mon jardin", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Nächtens im Garten bei mir", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 8
Word count: 27

Nächtens im Garten bei mir

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Russian (Русский)

Nächtens im Garten bei mir
weint eine traurige Weide,
und nichts dient zum Troste ihr,
Ivushka, traurige Weide.

Strahlend der Morgen erwacht:
Aurora, zärtliches Mädchen,
trocknet die bitteren Tränen
mit ihrem Lockenhaar sacht.

Translator's note: Ivushka heißt Weidenbäumchen.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from Russian (Русский) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), no title, written 1916, first published 1916
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Based on:

a text in Armenian (հայերեն) by Avetik Sahak Isahakyan (1875 - 1957) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2020-02-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 33