Откуда такая нежность? | Откуда такая нежность?

by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Otkuda takaja nežnost'?

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE

Otkuda takaja nežnost'?
Ne pervye -- ėti kudri
Razglaživaju, i guby
Znavala temnej tvoich. 

Vschodili i gasli zvëzdy
-- Otkuda takaja nežnost'? --
Vschodili i gasli oči 
U samych moich očej. 

Eščë ne takie pesni 
JA slušala noč'ju temnoj
[Venčaemaja — o nežnost'! —]¹
Na samoj grudi pevca.

Otkuda takaja nežnost',
I čto s neju delat', otrok
Lukavyj, pevec zachožij, 
S resnicami -- net dlinnej?

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• D. Shostakovich

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Text Authorship:

by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), no title, first published 1916 [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 Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Откуда такая нежность" [sung text not yet checked]
by Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (1934 - 2019), "Откуда такая нежность?", from Вокальный цикл на стихи М. Цветаевой (Vokal'nyj cikl na stikhi M. Cvetajevoj) = Vocal Cycle to the Verses by M. Tsvetayeva, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Откуда такая нежность?", op. 143a no. 2, from Шесть стихотворении Марини Цветаевой = Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

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