Счастье (Dligach, set by (Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Translation by Lev Dligach

Ikh hob mayn man genumen unter hant

Language: Yiddish (יידיש)

Ikh hob mayn man genumen unter hant,
ikh shem zikh gor nit vos ikh bin shoyn alt.
Gekumen in teater zaynen mir,
un in parter zitst er ebn mir, a gvir!

Gezesn zaynen mir bis shpet ba nakht,
un ot azoy ba mir hob ikh getrakht:
Oy, Sore, shusterke,
velkh nakhes hob ikh do gehat
af mayne alte yor, oy!

Un ale zoln visn fun mayn glik
vos mir gegebn hot di soviet vlast!
Di zin mayne ale inzhenerrn zaynen zey!
Di zun aleyn shaynt af unz hel azoy! Oy!

Authorship

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Ikh hob mayn man genumen unter hant", Jewish folk poetry. [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Lev Dligach FRE ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 13
Word count: 90

Sčast'e

Language: Russian (Русский) after the Yiddish (יידיש)

Available translation(s): FRE

Ja muža smelo pod ruku vzjala,
Pust' ja stara, i star moj kavaler.
Ego s soboj v teatr povela,
I vzjali dva bileta my v parter.

Do pozdnej noči s mužem sidja tam,
Vsë predavalis' radostnym mečtam, -
Kakimi blagami okružena
Evrejskogo sapožnika žena.

I vsej strane choču povedat' ja,
Pro radostnyj i svetlyj žrebij moj:
Vračami, naši stali synov'ja -
Zvezda gorit nad našej golovoj!

Note: input from a monograph by Prof. Joachim Braun.

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Authorship

by Lev Dligach [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Yiddish (יידיש) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Ikh hob mayn man genumen unter hant", Jewish folk poetry.

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by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Счастье", op. 79 no. 11 (1948), first performed 1955 [alto, soprano, tenor and piano], from Из Еврейской Народной Поэзии = Iz Jevrejskoj Narodnoj Po`ezii (From Jewish Folk Poetry), no. 11, note: orchestrated as op. 79a [ sung text verified 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: John Burke

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 66