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by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Листья шумели уныло

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Листья шумели уныло
[Ночью осенней]¹ порой;
Гроб [опускали]² в могилу,
Гроб, озарённый луной.

Тихо, без плача, зарыли
И удалились все прочь,
[Только луна на могилу]³,
[Грустно смотрела]⁴ всю ночь.

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• B. Lyatoshynsky • M. Musorgsky • A. Varlamov

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¹ Lyatoshynsky, Musorgsky: "В дубраве ночною" (V dubrave nochnoju)
² Lyatoshynsky, Musorgsky, Varlamov: "опустили" (opustili)
³ Musorgsky: "Только, склонясь над могилой" (Tol'ko, sklonjas' nad mogiloj)
⁴ Lyatoshynsky: "Молча смотрела" ("Molcha smotrela"); Musorgsky: "Листья шумели" (List'ja shumeli)

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Могила", first published 1844 [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 Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Листья шумели уныло", op. 23 (Пять романсов (Pjat' romansov) = Five Romances) no. 4 (1905) [sung text not yet checked]
by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky (1895 - 1968), "Могила", op. 6 (Три романси для низького голосу та фп.) no. 2 (1922) [ voice and piano ], also set in Ukrainian (Українська) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Листья шумели уныло", 1858, published 1911 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov (1886 - 1964), "Могила" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Листья шумели уныло" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksey Ivanovich Yermolov (1859 - 1925), "Листья шумели уныло" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by M. Litvinets ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Victor Han) , "The leaves were whispering sadly", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov) , "Düster und feucht war der Abend"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Les feuilles bruissaient tristement

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

Les feuilles bruissaient tristement,
La nuit, à l'automne,
Le cercueil était descendu dans la tombe,
Le cercueil, éclairé par la lune.

En silence, sans pleurs, ils le recouvrirent de terre,
Et tous partirent ;
Seule la lune au-dessus de la tombe
Tristement se penchait toute la nuit.

Note: this is a translation of Musorgsky's version.

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Translation from Russian (Русский) to French (Français) copyright © 2015 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Могила", first published 1844
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