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Ночевала тучка золотая На груди утёса-великана; Утром в путь она умчалась рано, По лазури весело играя. Но остался влажный след в морщине Старого утёса. Одиноко Он стоит; задумался глубоко, И тихонько плачет он в пустыне...
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- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Утёс", first published 1841 [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Утёс", op. 5 (Trois Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev (1884 - 1949), "Ночевала тучка золотая", from Liricheskije Stranicy (na temu "Odinochestvo Lermontova"), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910), "Утёс", 1909 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georgy Petrovich Bazilevsky (b. 1887), "Ночевала тучка золотая", op. 8 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Утёс", op. 5 (5 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 2, published 1893 [ bass or baritone and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (b. 1865), "Утёс", op. 31 (3 romansa) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Ночевала тучка золотая", op. 3 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1866) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Ночевала тучка золотая", op. 13 (2 трехголосных женских хора (2 trekhgolosnykh zhenskikh khora)) no. 2 [ three-part women's chorus and harmonium or fortepiano ad libitum ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Утёс", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 1 (1849-51) [ voice and piano ], Wien, Spina, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Утёс", op. 159 no. 3 (2009) [ voice and violoncello ], from Ot sosny do luny, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Ночевала тучка золотая", 1887 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Утёс", published 1868 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jules Ruelle (1834 - 1892) ; composed by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802 - 1870) , "Le rocher qui pleure", appears in Impressions de voyage, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy frères, first published 1865 [an adaptation] ; composed by Jules Bouval.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , "Der Fels", appears in Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw., first published 1857 ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Gottfried Wolters , "Eine kleine Wolke" ; composed by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Een kleine wolk", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov) , "The cliff", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35
Once upon a time a Golden Cloud On the bosom of a Cliff was sleeping By sunrise it with a breeze was sweeping Gaily playing with its azure shroud; But some traces of the cloud were seeping To the craggy wrinkles. In the desert The Cliff stood and mused without comfort Deeply thinking, desperately weeping.
Authorship
- Singable translation by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "The cliff", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Утёс", first published 1841
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 55