by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)
Vkrug peshchery Nimf, zatajennoj, vlaga
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Aeolic Greek
Vkrug peshchery Nimf, zatajennoj, vlaga
Khladnykh struj shumit mezh vetvej zelenykh
I s listvy, koleblemoj vod paden'em
L'etsja dremota.
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Confirmed with Сапфо и Алкей, Харьков "Фолио", 2008, page 40.
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Text Authorship:
- by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), "Сад Нимф", appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Сад Нимф", 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. 4, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (1902 - 1963), "В круг пещеры Нимф", op. 5 no. 4 (1922-23) [ voice and piano ], from Пять отрывков из Сафо, в переводе Вячеслава Иванова, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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