by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)
Gorod spit, okutan mgloju
Language: Russian (Русский)
Gorod spit, okutan mgloju, Čut' mercajut fonari... Tam dalëko, za Nevoju, Vižu otbleski zari. V ėtom dal'nem otražen'i, V ėtich otbleskach ognja Pritailos' probužden'e Dnej, tosklivych dlja menja...
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Text Authorship:
- by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), no title, written 1899, appears in Стихотворения. Книга первая (1898—1904), in 1. Ante Lucem (1898 - 1900), no. 24 [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Город спит", op. 127 no. 4 [ soprano, cello, and piano ], from Семь Стихотворений А. Блока: вокально-инструментальная сюита = Sem' stikhotvorenij A. Bloka, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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