Sternlein, wo bist du? | Sternlein, wo bist du, ach, wo ist mein Licht?

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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Где ты, звёздочка?

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE GER GER

Где ты, звёздочка, ах, где ты, ясная?
Иль затмилася тучей [мрачною]¹?
Где ты, девица, где ты, красная?
Иль покинула друга милого?²

И я с горести, со лютой тоски,
Пойду во поле, поле чистое,
Не увижу ли ясной звездочки,
Я не встречу ли красной девицы?

Туча чёрная скрыла звёздочку,
Земля хладная взяла девицу.

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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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]

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Sternlein, wo bist du?

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Russian (Русский)

Sternlein, wo bist du, ach, wo ist mein Licht?
Hat verdunkelt dich denn die düstre Wolk ?
Wo, mein Lieb, bist du, Schöne, wo bist du?
Hast verlassen du deinen Liebsten denn?

Und mit Kummer schwer und mit bittrem Weh
streife ich durchs Feld, hin durchs blanke Feld,
und ich schaue kein lichtes Sternlein mehr,
treffe dort ich kein schönes Liebchen mehr?

Denn die düstre Wolk hat verhüllt den Stern,
und die kalte Erd nahm mein Lieb mir fort.

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