by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942)
Music, when soft voices die
Language: English
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the belovèd's bed; And so [thy]1 thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ----", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824 [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 Emil Gustave Ahnell (b. 1925), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Aitken (b. 1882), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gilbert A. Alcock , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1928 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Allen , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1913, from Four Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Henry Anderson (1882 - 1955), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1947 [ SSA chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Benjamin Arnold , "Music, when soft voices die" [ ATBB chorus and piano ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Music, when soft voices die", 2009 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (b. 1856), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1883, from Sechs Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Judith Margaret Bailey , "Music", 1969 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Settings of Poems by Shelley [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874 - 1946), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1929 [ TTBB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1912 [ SATBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014), "Music, when soft voices die", copyright © 1988 [ soprano or tenor, violin, cello, and harpsichord or piano ], from Airs and Fancies, no. 1, New York : Galaxy Music : Contemporary Art Song Series [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), no title [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alice Barnett (1886 - 1975), "Music, when soft voices die", published c1926 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Katherine Barry , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1922, from Four Song Cameos [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Music, when soft voices die", 1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Harold R. Bayley , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1902 [ 2-part treble chorus a cappella ], no. 19 of series 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Lane Bayliff , "Music", published 1904, from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Bement , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1919 [sung text not yet checked]
- by George John Bennett (1863 - 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 4, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Bergh (1882 - 1962), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 37 no. 1, published 1947 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945), "Music, when soft vocies die", op. 11 no. 1, published 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Blume , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
- by N. Bradshaw , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1869 [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. L. Brainard , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1902 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (William) Havergal Brian (1876 - 1972), "Music, when soft voices die", 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "Music, when soft voices die" [ medium voice, viola, piano ], from Three songs with viola, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (1871 - 1947), "Music, when soft voices die" [ bass and piano ], from Three Songs for Bass Voice, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by R. Burnham , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1920, note: score contains a French translation by Maurice Boucher (Quand tu ne seras plus la) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Music, when soft voices die", 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Busby (b. 1935), "Music, when soft voices die" [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Music, when soft voices die -- Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano [sung text not yet checked]
- by Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1956 [ SATB chorus ], in the Elkin choral series no. 2428, with tonic sol-fa notation [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eugene Sanders Butler (b. 1935), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Noble Cain (1896 - 1977), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1939 [ 4-part women's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Thomas) Frederick Handel Candlyn (1892 - 1964), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1920 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. H. Casely , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], London, Weekes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Ward Casey , "Music, when soft voices die", published 1919 [ men's chorus a cappella ], York, Banks and Son [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stephen Chatman (b. 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", 1984 [ SATB chorus and oboe (or flute, or violin, or clarinet) ], from There is sweet music here, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "Music, when soft voices die", 1907 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "Music, when soft voices die", L. 358 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Music, when soft voices die", 1943, published c1944 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 9 no. 2 (1905?), published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], confirmed with a 1989 edition published by Recital Publications, Huntsville, TX [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Bruce Faith (b. 1926), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Freudenthal (b. 1934), "Music, when soft voices die" [ voice and piano ], from Three Shelley Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", 1897, published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Two Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Gold (1921 - 1999), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Kaufer (1909 - 1990), "Music when soft voices die", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Dover Beach and Other Songs, no. 1, Waukegan, Illinois: Lyric-Art [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881 - 1916), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 6 (Six Songs) no. 4 (1910), published 1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "Music, when soft voices die", first performed 1994 [ voice, violoncello, and piano ], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Music, when soft voices die" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Music, when soft voices die" [ satb chorus and piano ], from Six Modern Lyrics, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Music", op. 12 no. 3 (c1873), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Quincy C. Porter (1897 - 1966), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1947 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Music, when soft vocies die " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Purves-Smith (b. 1945), "Music when soft voices die", 2005 [ SATB chorus, oboe, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Music, when soft voices die", op. 25 (Six songs) no. 5 (1926), published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Winthrop Rogers [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan (1854 - 1934), "To...", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Shelley-liederen, no. 3, Amsterdam : Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Betty Roe (b. 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", published 2002 [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Two Duets, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Music, when soft voices die", published 1903 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Wind Flowers, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henk van der Vliet , "Music, when soft voices die", 1977, from 5 songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Music, when soft voices die", 1911, published 1972 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Aan..." ; composed by Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George John Bennett.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) ; composed by Feodor Könemann, Boris Lvovich Levinson, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky, Vladimir Ivanovich Pol, Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev.
- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Ivan Matveyevich Steshenko (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Musik, wenn leise Stimmen ersterben ...", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46
Pust` otzvuchit
Language: Russian (Русский) after the English
Pust` otzvuchit garmonichnoe, nezhnoe pen`e, V pamyati vsyo eshhyo zvuki revnivo drozhat. Pust` otczvetaet fialka, prozhivshi mgnoven`e, V venchike blednom xranitsya eyo aromat. Svetly'e rozy', skonchavshis`, tolpoj pogrebal`noj, Iskryatsya v py'shny'x buketax, kak v nebe zvezda. Tak ya s toboj razluchyon. No tvoj obraz pechal`ny'j V serdce moyom, ubayukanny'j, dremlet vsegda.
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Text Authorship:
- by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ----", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Feodor Könemann (1873 - 1937), "Пусть отзвучит" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boris Lvovich Levinson (1884 - 1947), "Пусть отзвучит" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky (1895 - 1968), "Пусть отзвучит", op. 14 (Чотири романси для середнього голосу та ф-но на сл. П.-Б. Шеллі ) no. 1 [ medium voice and piano ], also set in Ukrainian (Українська) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Ivanovich Pol (1875 - 1962), "Пусть отзвучит" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Пусть отзвучит", op. 17 (10 Романсов) no. 3, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 51