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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)
Translation Singable translation © by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020)
Вверху одна
Language: Russian (Русский)
Our translations: CHI
Вверху одна Горит звезда, Мой ум она Манит всегда, Мои мечты Она влечёт И с высоты [Мне радость льёт]1. Таков же был Тот нежный взор, Что я любил Судьбе в укор. Мук никогда Он зреть не мог, Как та звезда, Он был далёк. Усталых вежд Я не смыкал, Я без надежд К нему взирал.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Cui: "Menja zovjot"
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Звезда", first published 1830-1 [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 Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1821 - 1898), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dimitri Ignatevich Arakishvili (b. 1953), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mariya Vasilyevna Begicheva-Shilovskaya (1825 - 1879), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vadim Davidovich Bibergan (b. 1937), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Petrovich Bulakhov (1822 - 1885), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Звезда", op. 19 (Семь романсов и дуэтов = Sem' romansov i du`etov (Seven romances and duets)) no. 2 (1881), published 1881, St Petersburg, Bessel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by G. A. Goldenberg , "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by V. V. Gurdov , "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhailo Mikhailovich Kalachevsky (1851 - 1907), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yuly Antonovich Kapri (1831 - 1918), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrey Fyodorovich Kazbryuk (1849 - 1885), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anna Abramovna Kozakevich (1909 - 2008), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Stepanovich Lavrov (1861 - 1927), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Viktoriya Sergeyevna Levitskaya (1911 - 1988), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859 - 1924), "Звезда", op. 32 no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olga Vasilyevna Nikolskaya (b. 1916), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Viktor Nikandrovich Paskhalov (1841 - 1885), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georgy Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov (1901 - 1965), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrey Mikhailovich Sevastyanov (1915 - 1991), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Andreyevich Shchurovsky (1850 - 1908), "Вверху одна горит звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Alekseyevich Shenshin (1890 - 1944), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anatoly Maksimilianovich Shmidtgof (1860 - 1907), "Вверху одна горит звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Звезда", op. 159 no. 4 (2009) [ voice and violoncello ], from Ot sosny do luny, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Konstantin Stepanovich Sorokin (1909 - 1998), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Tivol'sky (b. 1834), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yury Mikhailovich Yatsevich (1901 - 1968), "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
- by F. A. Zaikin , "Звезда" [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov) , "The star", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 56
The star
Language: English after the Russian (Русский)
Up in the sky You pour your light. O tell me why Within the night Your shining beams Attract my mind And lead my dreams Somewhere behind? The look like this So much I loved, It gave me bliss Like some witchcraft; It was as far Away from me As you, my Star! I bent my knee: To score a hit Within the scope I looked at it, But had no hope.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "The star", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Звезда", first published 1830-1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-09
Line count: 20
Word count: 72