L'heure joyeuse | Donnez les verres

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by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Весёлый час

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Дайте бокалы!
Дайте вина!
Радость - мгновенье.
[Пейте]¹ до дна!
Громкие песни
Гряньте, друзья!
Пусть нас весёлых
Видит заря!
Ныне пируем -
[Юность на час]² -
Нынче веселье,
[Радость]³ у нас!
Завтра что будет,
[Знаю ль, друзья]⁴?
Пусть нас весёлых
Видит заря!
Шумно, разгульно
[Пойте]⁵, друзья!
Лейте в бокалы
Больше вина!
Ну-те ж все разом
Выпьём до дна!
Пусть нас весёлых
Видит заря!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Dyubyuk • M. Musorgsky

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¹ Musorgsky: "Выпьём"
² Dyubyuk: "Юности час" ; Musorgsky: "Юность, друзья"
³ Musorgsky: "праздник"
⁴ Musorgsky: "знаю-ли я"
⁵ Musorgsky: "пейте"

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Весёлый час", written 1830 [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 Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1821 - 1898), "Весёлый час" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Весёлый час" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Весёлый час", 1858 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "L'heure joyeuse", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 66

L'heure joyeuse

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

Donnez les verres, 
donnez le vin !
En ce joyeux moment, 
vidons nos verres !
Entonnons des chants bruyants, 
les amis !
Soyons joyeux 
jusqu'à l'aube !
Maintenant régalons 
la jeunesse, les amis,
Aujourd'hui amusons-nous, 
faisons la fête,
Demain, qu'y aura-t-il, 
le sais-je ?
Soyons joyeux 
jusqu'à l'aube !
Faisons du bruit, 
buvons avec tapage, les amis,
Versons plus de vin 
dans les verres !
Maintenant d'un coup, 
vidons nos verres !
Soyons joyeux 
jusqu'à l'aube !

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Весёлый час", written 1830
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This text was added to the website: 2015-11-10
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Word count: 68