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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Ja zhit' khochu! Khochu pechali
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ja zhit' khochu! Khochu pechali
Ljubvi i schastiju nazlo;
Oni moj um izbalovali
I slishkom sgladili chelo.
Pora, pora nasmeshkam sveta
Prognat' spokojstvija tuman.
Chto bez stradanij zhizn' po`eta?
I chto bez buri okean?
On khochet zhit' cenoju muki,
Cenoj tomitel'nykh zabot.
On pokupajet neba zvuki,
On darom slavy ne beret.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1832 [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 Leonid Ovanesovich Bakalov (1908 - 1982), "Я жить хочу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viktor Arkadyevich Bely (1904 - 1989), "Я жить хочу! Хочу печали" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Yury Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1823 - 1872), "Я жить хочу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viktoriya Sergeyevna Levitskaya (1911 - 1988), "Я жить хочу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (1902 - 1963), "Я жить хочу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dmitry Alekseyevich Tolstoy (1923 - 2003), "Я жить хочу" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 51

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