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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Angel
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
V dverjach Ėdema angel nežnyj
Glavoj ponikšeju sijal,
A demon mračnyj i mjatežnyj
Nad adskoj bezdnoju letal.

Duch otrican'ja, duch somnen'ja
Na ducha čistogo vziral
I žar nevol'nyj umilen'ja
Vpervye smutno poznaval.

«Prosti,» on rëk, «tebja ja videl,
I ty nedarom mne sijal:
Ne vsë ja v [nebe]1 nenavidel,
Ne vsë ja v mire preziral.»

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•   C. Cui 

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1 Cui: "мире" (mire)

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Ангел", first published 1827 [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 Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "Ангел", op. 15 no. 6 [ voice and piano ], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 6, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Ангел", op. 76 no. 3 (1965), from Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ангел", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Ангел", op. 36 (Шесть стихотворений А. Пушкина (Shest' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Ангел", op. 78 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischen von W. Osterwald (Twelve Russian Songs)) no. 3 (c1867), published 1868 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Senff, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Lyle Neff) , "The angel", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ange", copyright © 2015, (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: 12
Word count: 56

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