by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)
Mat` milaya! stanok
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Aeolic Greek
Mat` milaya! stanok
Stal mne posty'l,
I tkat` net sily'.
Mne serdce strast` krushit;
Chary' tomyat
Kipridy' nezhnoj.
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Confirmed with Сапфо и Алкей, Харьков "Фолио", 2008, page 52.
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Text Authorship:
- by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), no title, 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)
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), "Эротический отрывок", 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. 9, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) , no title, appears in Simonidea, first published 1860 [an adaptation] FRE GER GER RUS ; composed by Howard Barlow, Cecil Burleigh, John Edmunds, George Foote, Oskar Morawetz, Alexander Paucker, as Francis Chagrin, Ned Rorem.
- Also set in English, a translation by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852) , no title [an adaptation] FRE GER GER RUS ; composed by Henry Théodore Pontet.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS ; composed by Richard Barth.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , no title, appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, in 2. Das zweite Buch. Lieder aus dem Süd, in 5. Fragmente griechischer Lieder. Sappho, no. 1 ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS ; composed by Mathilde von Kralik.
- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Janina Brzostowska (1897 - 1986) , copyright © ENG ENG ENG FRE GER GER RUS ; composed by Andrzej Hundziak.
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