by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892)
Translation Singable translation by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Tomu, kto khochet zhit' legko
Language: Russian (Русский) after the German (Deutsch)
Tomu, kto khochet zhit' legko, druz'ja, neobkhodimo, chtob v kubke penilos' vino, ne prolivajas' mimo. Kto bol'she p'jot, tot i umnej p'jot, tomu zhivetsja veselej i legche, i privol'nej. Kak nad dolinoj cepi gor, vysoko nad tolpoju stoit mudrec, chto s rannikh por k vinu privyk dushoju. Zlatit vershiny svet dnevnoj i v vlage denistoj zhivoj prirodu otrazhajet. Skazhite, chto nam svet dajot po-mimo op'janen'ja? Net, tot neschastnyj, chto ne p'jot, dostoin sozhalen'ja. Odno lish' znaju ja cennej; kogda s Gafizoju mojej my vremja korotajem.
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Die Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, in Lieder zum Lobe des Weines und irdischer Glückseligkeit, no. 3
Based on:
- a text in Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili) by Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh (1794 - 1852) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Тому, кто хочет жить легко", op. 34 no. 5 (1854), from Двенадцать Песен Мирзы-Шафи (Dvenadcat' Pesen Mirzy-Shafi) = 12 Songs of Mirza-Shaffy, no. 5, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]
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