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Нам звёзды кроткие сияли, чуть веял тихий ветерок, кругом цветы благоухали, и волны ласково журчали у наших ног. Мы были юны, мы любили, и с верой в даль смотрели мы; в нас грёзы радужные жили, и нам не страшны вьюги были седой зимы. Где ж эти ночи с их сияньем, с благоухающей красой и волн таинственным [ронтаньем]1, надежд, восторжённых мечтаний где светлый рой? Померкли звёзды, и уныло поникли блеклые цветы... Когда ж, о сердце, все, что было, что нам весна с тобой дарила, забудешь ты?
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Tchaikovsky: "zhurchan'jem"
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- by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Слова для музыки" [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 Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1866 - 1901), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 12 (1886) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov (1865 - 1927), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [sung text not yet checked]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Gentle stars were shining upon us, A light breeze was breathing, The flowers were perfuming the surrounding air And the waves were tenderly murmuring at our feet. We were young, we were in love, And with hope we were looking into the distance; We were full of rosy dreams And we feared not the blizzards of gray-haired winter. Where are those nights with their radiance, Fragrant beauty And mysterious whispering of the waves, The bright flock of hopes and ecstatic dreams - where is it? The stars have faded away And the wilted flowers have withered... When, oh heart, all that happened, All the gifts of the spring, Will you forget?
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Слова для музыки"
This text was added to the website: 2018-06-30
Line count: 20
Word count: 111