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by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)

Эротический отрывок
 (Sung text for setting by A. Lourié)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Aeolic Greek 
На персях подруги усни,
На персях усни сладострастных.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Эротический отрывок", 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Греческие песни на тексты из Сафо в переводе Вяч. Иванова (Grecheskije pesni na teksty iz Safo, v perevode Vjacheslava Ivanova), no. 10, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo )

Text Authorship:

  • by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation]

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2015-11-04
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