Листья шумели уныло
Language: Russian (Русский)
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Листья шумели уныло
[Ночью осенней]1 порой;
Гроб [опускали]2 в могилу,
Гроб, озарённый луной.
Тихо, без плача, зарыли
И удалились все прочь,
[Только луна на могилу]3,
[Грустно смотрела]4 всю ночь.
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1 Lyatoshynsky, Musorgsky: "В дубраве ночною" (V dubrave nochnoju)
2 Lyatoshynsky, Musorgsky, Varlamov: "опустили" (opustili)
3 Musorgsky: "Только, склонясь над могилой" (Tol'ko, sklonjas' nad mogiloj)
4 Lyatoshynsky: "Молча смотрела" ("Molcha smotrela"); Musorgsky: "Листья шумели" (List'ja shumeli)
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Листья шумели уныло", op. 23 (Пять романсов (Pjat' romansov) = Five Romances) no. 4 (1905) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky (1895 - 1968), "Могила", op. 6 (Три романси для низького голосу та фп.) no. 2 (1922) [ voice and piano ], also set in Ukrainian (Українська) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Листья шумели уныло", 1858, published 1911 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov (1886 - 1964), "Могила" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Листья шумели уныло" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksey Ivanovich Yermolov (1859 - 1925), "Листья шумели уныло" [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by M. Litvinets ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Victor Han) , "The leaves were whispering sadly", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les feuilles bruissaient tristement", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov) , "Düster und feucht war der Abend"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 29
The leaves were whispering sadly
Language: English  after the Russian (Русский)
The leaves were whispering sadly
In the forest in the time of night
They lowered the casket in the grave,
The casket, lit by the moon.
Quietly, without cries they covered it with earth.
And all went away,
Only, leaning over the grave,
The leaves whispered all night.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 48