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Мне грустно, потому что я тебя люблю И знаю: Молодость цветущую твою Не пощадит молвы коварное гоненье. За каждый светлый [день]1 иль сладкое мгновенье Слезами и тоской заплатишь ты судьбе. Мне грустно, потому что весело тебе.
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- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Отчего", first published 1840 [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 Fyodor Stepanovich Akimenko (1876 - 1945), "Отчего", op. 6 (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано) = Vier Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irina Vladimirovna Arseyeva (1941 - 1999), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leonid Ovanesovich Bakalov (1908 - 1982), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910), "Отчего" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Мне грустно" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Nikolay Dmitrevich Dmitriev (1829 - 1893), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergey Pavlovich Dobrovolsky , "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksey Konstantinovich Dreier (b. 1857), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Varvara Adrianovna Gaygerova (1903 - 1944), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (1865 - 1923), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Andreyevich Ivanov (1898 - 1970), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oskar Karlovich Klemm (1821 - 1891), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896 - c1938), "Мне грустно" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Abramovich Kreyn (1883 - 1951), "Отчего", op. 6 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Four romances) no. 2 (1905), published [1912] [ voice and piano ], М. : Юргенсон [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Мне грустно" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Abdulas Maldybayev (1906 - 1978), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Ippolitovich Mann (1864 - 1922), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Miklashevsky (d. 1935), "Мне грустно" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fedyr Mikolayovych Nadenenko (1902 - 1963), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Alekseyevich Olenin (1865 - 1944), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georgy Konstantinovich Pakhiopulo (b. 1872), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Nikolayevich Renchitsky (1874 - 1965), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Мне грустно", op. 41 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2 (1897) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (1864 - 1920), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - 1914), "Мне грустно" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fyodor Ivanovich Silin , "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olga Vasilyevna Smirnitskaya (1838 - 1919), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Nikolayevich Sokolovsky (1865 - 1921), "Отчего" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Vladimirovich Unkovsky (1857 - 1904), "Мне грустно" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky (1788 - 1856), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhailo Mikhaylovych Zherbin (1911 - 2004), "Отчего" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "I am sad because I love you", copyright ©
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 36
I am sad because I love you and know that your blossoming youth will not be spared by insidious gossip. For every good day, for every sweet moment you will have to pay Fate with tears and grief. I am sad because you are happy.
Authorship:
- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Отчего", first published 1840
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 46