by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873)
Слёзы людские, о слёзы людские
Language: Russian (Русский)
Слёзы людские, о слёзы людские, Льётесь вы ранней и поздней порой, Льётесь безвестные, льётесь незримые, [Неистощимые, неисчислимые]1, Льётесь, как льются струи [дождевые]2 В осень глухую порою ночной.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 older spelling: "Неистощимыя, неисчислимыя" ("Nejistoshchimyja, nejischislimyja")
2 older spelling: "дождевыя" ("dozhdevyja")
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- by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), no title, first published 1849? [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 Mikhail Vasilyevich Antsev (1865 - 1945), "Слёзы" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "Слёзы", op. 8 (4 романса для пения с сопровождением фортепиано (4 romansa dlja penija s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ivan Ivanovich Chernov (1872 - 1952), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Слёзы людские", op. 88 (Девять вокальных квартетов = Devjat' vokal'nykh kvartetov (Nine vocal quartets)) no. 1 (1911-1912), published 1912 [ TTBB quartet ], Moscow, Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Konstantin Mikhailovich Galkovsky (1875 - 1963), "Слёзы" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Слёзы людские", op. 6 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Слёзы", op. 7 (4 Романса для высокаго голоса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 Romansa dlja vysokago golosa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 2, published 1895 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (1865 - 1923), "Слёзы", op. 99 no. 2 [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (1826 - 1894), "Слёзы" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Ivanovich Kharito (1886 - 1918), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1847 - ?), "Слёзы" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leonid Leonidovich Lisovsky (1866 - 1934), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Matveyev (1912 - 1994), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Слёзы", op. 37 (Пять стихотворений (Pjat' stikhotvorenij)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Ivanovich Mervolf (1886 - 1942), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (1866 - 1920), "Слёзы" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nataliya Ilinichna Sats (1903 - 1993), "Слёзы" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ilya Aleksandrovich Sats (1875 - 1912), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - 1914), "Слёзы" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Слёзы", op. 46 (Шесть дуэтов = Shest' du`etov (Six duets)) no. 3 (1880/1) [ duet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vasily Vasilyevich Vargin , "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Yegorov (1887 - 1959), "Слёзы людские" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Слёзы", op. 9 no. 3, published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Слёзы людские", op. 20 no. 4, published [1905] [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915) , "Larmes humaines", appears in Trente poésies russes, mélodies, imitées par Paul Collin, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1894 [an adaptation] ; composed by René de Boisdeffre.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909) , "Les larmes humaines", appears in Petits poèmes russes, in 2. Tioutchev, no. 4, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, first published 1893 [an adaptation] ; composed by Camille Erlanger.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Hellmuth Pattenhausen) , "Tränen", copyright ©
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