Был старый король | Был старый король... (Эту песню

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893)

Es war ein alter König

Language: German (Deutsch)

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Confirmed with Neue Gedichte von H. Heine, Zweite Auflage, Hamburg, bei Hoffmann und Campe, 1844, page 28.

¹ Diepenbrock: "Haar"
² Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Zemlinsky: "junger"
³ Wolfrum: "Haar"
⁴ Goldschmidt: "seidene"

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1830, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 29

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "There was an old king", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Il était un vieux roi", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Был старый король

(Sung text for setting by V. Kalinnikov)

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

Был старый король... (Эту песню
Я, други, слыхал в старину.)
Седой и с остылой душою,
Он взял молодую жену.

Был паж с голубыми глазами,
Исполнен отваги и сил;
Он шелковый шлейф королевы
Прекрасной и юной носил.

Докончить ли старую песню?
Звучит так уныло она...
Друг друга они полюбили,
И смерть им была суждена.

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Composition:

Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov

Lieder

German (Deutsch)

Text Authorship:

by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), no title, written 1845

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1830, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 29
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This text was added to the website: 2008-04-22
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Word count: 53