by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
Dar naprasnyj, dar sluchajnyj
Language: Russian (Русский)
Dar naprasnyj, dar sluchajnyj, Zhizn' zachem ty mne dana? Il' zachem sud'boju tajnoj Ty na kazn' osuzhdena? Kto menja vrazhdebnoj vlast'ju Iz nichtozhestva vozzval? Dushu mne napolnil strast'ju, Um somnen'em, vzvolnoval? Celi net peredo mnoju, Serdce pusto, prazden um I tomit menja toskoju Odnozvuchnyj zhizni shum.
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Text Authorship:
- 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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