by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855)
Translation by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862)
Moja balovnica
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Polish (Polski)
Moja balovnica, otdavshis' vesel'ju, Zal'etsja, kak ptichka, serebrjanoj trel'ju, Kak ptichka, nachnjot shchebetat'-lepetat', Tak milo nachnjot lepetat'-shchebetat', Chto dazhe dykhan'em bojus' ja narushit' Garmoniju sladkuju devstvennykh slov, I celye dni, i vsju zhizn' ja gotov Krasavicu slushat', i slushat', i slushat'! Kogda zh [zhivost' rechi]1 jej glazki zazhzhjot I shcheki sil'neje rumjanit' nachnjot, Kogda pri ulybke, skvoz' alye guby, Kak perly v korallakh, blesnut jejo zuby, O, v `eti minuty ja smelo opjat' Gljazhusja jej v ochi i zhdu poceluja, I boleje slushat' jejo ne khochu ja, A vsjo -- celovat', celovat', celovat'!2
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1 Rimsky-Korsakov: "смех задором" ("smekh zadorom")
2 Tchaikovsky adds here: "Мою баловницу всю жизнь я готов целовать, целовать, целовать" ("Moju balovnicu vsju zhizn' ja gotov celovat', celovat', celovat'").
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1 Rimsky-Korsakov: "смех задором" ("smekh zadorom")
2 Tchaikovsky adds here: "Мою баловницу всю жизнь я готов целовать, целовать, целовать" ("Moju balovnicu vsju zhizn' ja gotov celovat', celovat', celovat'").
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Text Authorship:
- by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862), "Моя баловница" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Polish (Polski) by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855), "Do D... D...", written 1825
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Моя баловница", op. 42 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 4 (1897) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Моя баловница", op. 27 (Шесть романсов и песни = Shest' romansov i pesni (Six romances and songs)) no. 6 (1875) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Aleksandr Petrovich Koptyayev.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Sergei Grigorevich Golitsyn (1803 - 1868) ; composed by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Eduard Frantsevich Nápravník.
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- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Mikhailo Petrovych Starytsky (1840 - 1904) ; composed by Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko.
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