Вечерний звон, вечерний звон! 
Как много дум наводит он
О юных днях в краю родном,
Где я любил, где отчий дом,
И как я, с ним навек простясь,
Там [слушал]1 звон в последний раз! 

Уже не зреть мне светлых дней
Весны обманчивой моей! 
И сколько нет теперь в живых
Тогда веселых, молодых! 
И крепок их могильный сон;
Не слышен им вечерний звон. 

Лежать и мне в земле сырой! 
Напев [унывный]2 надо мной
В долине ветер разнесет;
Другой певец по ней пройдет,
И уж не я, а будет он
В раздумье петь вечерний звон!

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¹ Gretchaninov: "slyshal"
² Gretchaninov: "unylyj"

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Text Authorship:

• by Ivan Ivanovich Kozlov (1779 - 1840), first published 1827 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in English by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Those evening bells", appears in National Airs, first published 1818
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Вечерний звон", 1830 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Yury Karlovich Arnold (1811 - 1898), "Вечерний звон" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Ivanovich Bakhmetyev (1807 - 1891), "Вечерний звон" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Yosif Yosifovich Genishta (1795 - 1853), "Вечерний звон", published 1839 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Вечерний звон", op. 15 (2 романса (2 romansa)) no. 1 (1898), published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
• by A. A. Rachmaninov , "Вечерний звон", 1840 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Varvara Saburova , "Вечерний звон", published 1834 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vyacheslov Ivanovich Volkov (1904 - 1980), "Вечерний звон" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pavel Maksimovich Vorotnikov (1804 - 1876), "Вечерний звон", 1873 [ vocal quartet ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Вечерний звон", op. 20 no. 5 (1905), published [1905] [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Prosper Blanchemain (1816 - 1879) , "Les cloches du soir", written 1853?, appears in Foi, espérance et charité, poésies religieuses et morales, Paris, Éd. P. Masgana, first published 1853 ; composed by A. Miroir.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karoline (or Caroline) Wilhelmine Leonhardt (1811 - 1899) ; composed by Henry Hugo Pierson.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred von Ehrmann ; composed by Stefan Stocker.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Gustav) Emil Barthel (1835 - 1906) , "Abendglocken" ; composed by Albert Ernst Anton Becker.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist and possibly by Friedrich August Leo (1820 - 1898); composed by Reinhold Ludwig Herman, Hermann Marx, Ernst Edward Taubert.
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• Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Stanisław Moniuszko.
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