Слыхали ль вы за рощей глас ночной
Певца любви, певца своей печали?
Когда поля в час утренний молчали,
Свирели звук [унылый]1 и простой
Слыхали ль вы, слыхали ль вы?

Встречали ль вы в пустынной тьме лесной
Певца любви, певца своей печали?
[Прискорбную ль улыбку замечали]2,
Иль тихий взор, исполненный тоской,
Встречали вы, встречали вы?

Вздохнули ль вы, внимая [тихой]3 глас
Певца любви, певца своей печали?
Когда в лесах вы юношу видали,
Встречая взор его потухших глаз,
Вздохнули ль вы, вздохнули ль вы?

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¹ N. S. Titov: "унылой" ("unyloj")
² N. S. Titov, Medtner: "Следы ли слёз, улыбку ль замечали" ("Sledy li sljoz, ulybku l' zamechali")
³ Levina, N. S. Titov: "тихий" ("tikhij")

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• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Певец", first published 1816 [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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Певец" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Konstantin Nikolayevich Bozhanovsky , "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Filippovich Khristianovich (1828 - 1890), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (1906 - 1976), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (1906 - 1976), "Певец" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Певец", op. 29 (Семь стихотворений А. Пушкина (Sem' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Певец", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 7 (1849-51) [ voice and piano ], Wien, Spina, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ivan Petrovich Shishov (1888 - 1947), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Певец", op. 20 no. 3, published 1976 [ voice, flute, percussion, violin, and cello ], from Pechal' minuvshikh dnej, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolay Nikolayevich Sokolovsky (1865 - 1921), "Певец" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Певец", op. 24, first performed 1879, from opera Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov (1800 - 1875), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Sergeyevich Titov (1798 - 1843), "Певец", published 1829 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky (1799 - 1862), "Певец" [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Dmitri Smirnov) , "The singer", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Jacob Wilde) , "The Singer", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le chanteur", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) , "Der Sänger", appears in Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw., first published 1857

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