by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
Dar naprasny'j, dar sluchajny'j
Language: Russian (Русский)
Dar naprasny'j, dar sluchajny'j, Zhizn` zachem ty' mne dana? Il` zachem sud`boyu tajnoj Ty' na kazn` osuzhdena? Kto menya vrazhdebnoj vlast`yu Iz nichtozhestva vozzval? Dushu mne napolnil strast`yu, Um somnen`em, vzvolnoval? Czeli net peredo mnoyu, Serdce pusto, prazden um I tomit menya toskoyu Odnozvuchny'j zhizni shum.
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- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) [author's text not yet checked 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 Rostislav Grigor'yevich Boyko (1931 - 2002), "Дар напрасный, дар случайный" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boris Aleksandrovich Chaikovsky (1925 - 1996), "Дар напрасный, дар случайный" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladislav Igorevich Kazenin (b. 1937), "Дар прекрасный" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marian Viktorovich Koval (1907 - 1971), "Дар напрасный" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813 - 1877), "Дар напрасный, дар случайный" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Дар напрасный", op. 19a (Dva stikhotvorenija Aleksandra Pushkina) no. 1, published 1976 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Taneyev (1850 - 1918), "Дар напрасный, дар случайный" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov (1800 - 1875), "Жизнь, зачем ты мне дана?" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Sergeyevich Titov (1798 - 1843), "Дар напрасный, дар случайный" [sung text not yet checked]
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