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Ночи безумные, ночи бессонные, Речи несвязные, взоры усталые... Ночи, последним огнем озаренные, Осени мёртвой цветы запоздалые! Пусть даже время рукой беспощадною Мне указало, что было в вас ложного, Всё же лечу я к вам памятью жадною, В прошлом ответа ищу невозможного... Вкрадчивым шепотом вы заглушаете Звуки дневные, несносные, шумные... В тихую ночь вы мой сон отгоняете, Ночи бессонные, ночи безумные!
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- by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, first published 1876 [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 E. M. Balkashina , "Ночи безумные" [sung text not yet checked]
- by P. P. Derviz , "Ночи безумные" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Ivanovich Donaurov (1839 - 1897), "Ночи безумные" [sung text not yet checked]
- by M. N. Ofrosimov , "Ночи безумные" [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. V. Sologub , "Ночи безумные" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Ночи безумные", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 6 (1886) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Evgeny Borisovich Vilbushevich (1874 - 1933), "Ночи безумные" [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Verrückte Nächte, die ich hab durchwacht, müde Blicke, Worte, die sich nicht mehr finden … Letzte Feuer machen hell die Nacht, Letztes Aufblühn eines Herbsts am schwinden! Auch wenn mir die erbarmungslose Zeit deine ganze Falschheit offenbart, such ich dennoch mit Begehrlichkeit, was Erinn’rung mir vielleicht bewahrt. Mit süßem Flüstern löschst du, was am Tag ich tragen muss an allzu lauter Fracht … - in stiller Nacht vertreibst du Traum und Schlaf - verrückte Nächte, die ich hab durchwacht!
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, first published 1876
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-22
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