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Ночь печальна, как мечты мои... Далеко, в глухой степи широкой, Огонек мерцает одинокий... В сердце много грусти и любви. Но кому и как разскажешь ты, Что зовёт тебя, чем сердце полно? Путь далек, глухая степь безмолвна, Ночь печальна, как мои мечты.
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), no title, written 1900 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Ночь печальна", op. 14 (Шесть романсов (Shest' romansov) = Six Romances) no. 1 (1904) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof (b. 1881), "Ночь печальна, как мечты мои" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vassily Vasilyevich Nechayev (1895 - 1956), "Ночь печальна", op. 1 no. 6 (1918), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Девять юношеских песен для голоса с фортепиано (Devjat' junosheskikh pesen dlja golosa s fortepiano) = Dix pièces pour les jeunes, no. 6, Moscow [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ночь печальна", op. 26 (Пятнадцать романсов = Pjatnadcat' romansov (Fifteen songs)) no. 12 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "The night is mournful", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La nuit est triste", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 41
Voll Trauer ist die Nacht, wie meine Träume … Von fernab - aus der Steppe weiter Räume - glänzt schimmernd ein verloren Lichtlein her … Liebe und Weh macht mir das Herze schwer. Doch wem und wie sei dieses denn gesagt, was mich betört und was mein Herze plagt? Weit ist der Weg, sprachlos der Steppe Räume, voll Trauer ist die Nacht, wie meine Träume.
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- 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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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), no title, written 1900
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 63