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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866)

Gde ty, zvëzdočka?
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FRE GER GER
Gde ty, zvëzdočka, ach, gde ty, jasnaja?
Il' zatmilasja tučej [mračnoju]1?
Gde ty, devica, gde ty, krasnaja?
Il' pokinula druga milogo?2

I ja s goresti, so ljutoj toski,
Pojdu vo pole, pole čistoe,
Ne uvižu li jasnoj zvezdočki,
JA ne vstreču li krasnoj devicy?

Tuča čërnaja skryla zvëzdočku,
Zemlja chladnaja vzjala devicu.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. Musorgsky 

M. Musorgsky sets stanzas 1, 3

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1 Musorgsky: "чёрною, тучей чёрною, тучей мрачною" ("chjornoju, tuchej chjornoju, tuchej mrachnoju")
2 Musorgsky adds "Друга милого, ненаглядного" ("Druga milogo, nenagljadnogo?")

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Text Authorship:

  • by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866), "Где ты, звёздочка?", written 1840? [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 Konstantin Petrovich Galler (1845 - 1888), "Где ты, звёздочка?" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Где ты, звёздочка?", 1857, published 1911, stanzas 1,3 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by N. V. Pilikin , "Где ты, звёздочка?", 1903 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Где ты, звёздочка?", published 1840? [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Erin Franklin) , "Where are you little star?", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Where are you, little star?", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Où es-tu, petite étoile ?", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Frieder Anders) , "Wo bist du, Sternlein?", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sternlein, wo bist du?", copyright © 2018, (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: 10
Word count: 52

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