Русская песня | Пела, пела пташечка

by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831) and sometimes misattributed to Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Пела, пела пташечка

Language: Russian (Русский)

Пела, пела пташечка
  И затихла;
Знало сердце радости
  И забыло. 

Что, певунья пташечка,
  Замолчала? 
Как ты, сердце, сведалось
  С чёрным горем? 

Ах! убили пташечку
  Злые вьюги;
Погубили молодца
  Злые толки! 

Полететь бы пташечке
  К синю морю;
Убежать бы молодцу
  В лес дремучий! --

На море валы шумят,
  А не вьюги,
В лесе звери лютые,
  Да не люди!

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by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831), "Русская песня", first published 1824 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Nikolay Dmitrevich Dmitriev (1829 - 1893), "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Ivanovich Donaurov (1839 - 1897), "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by I. G. Litander , "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Nolinsky , "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Пела, пела пташечка", op. 48 no. 9 (1852) [ duet for alto and soprano with piano ], from Двенадцать дуэтов (Dvenadcat' du`etov) = Twelve duets, no. 9, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Pyotr Petrovich Shenk (1870 - ?), "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Mikhail Lukyanovich Yakovlev (1798 - 1868), "Русская песня" [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , no title, appears in Alte und neue Gedichte, in 6. Volksweisen als Intermezzo, no. 7 ; composed by Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 56