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Что так усиленно сердце больное Бьётся, и просит, и жаждет покоя? Чем я взволнован испуган в ночи? Стукнула дверь застонав и заноя. Гаснущей лампы блеснули лучи... Боже мой. Дух мне в груди захватило! Кто-то зовёт меня, шепчет уныло... Кто-то вошёл...? Моя келья пуста, Нет никого, это полночь пробило... О, одиночество, о нищета!
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- by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai
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 Pavlovich Kalafati (1869 - 1942), "Что так усиленно сердце", op. 2 (Chetyre romansa) no. 1, published <<1895 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Отрывок из А. Мюссе", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 6 (1902) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Why does my aching heart so strenuously Beat, and plead, and yearn for peace? What troubles me and terrifies me in the night? A door has banged shut, groaning and whining; The sputtering lamp has sent out flashing rays of light… My God! My breath catches in my chest! Someone calls to me, whispering gloomily… Someone has come in… but my room is empty, There is nobody here - it was midnight striking. Oh, loneliness, o poverty!
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Translations of titles
"Отрывок из А. Мюссе" = "An excerpt from A. Musset"
"Что так усиленно сердце" = "Why does my aching heart"
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2018 by Emily Ezust
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893)
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai
This text was added to the website: 2018-12-19
Line count: 10
Word count: 77