by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)
Ja tebe nichego ne skazhu
Language: Russian (Русский)
Ja tebe nichego ne skazhu [i]1 tebja ne vstrevozhu nichut', i o tom, chto ja molcha tverzhu, ne reshus' ni za chto nameknut'. Celyj den' spjat nochnye cvety, no, lish' solnce za [roshchi]2 zajdjot, [raskryvajutsja tikho listy,]3 i ja slyshu, kak serdce cvetjot... I v bol'nuju, ustaluju grud' vejet vlagoj nochnoj... Ja drozhu... Ja tebja ne vstrevozhu nichut', ja tebe nichego ne skazhu!
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View original text (without footnotes)First published in Vestnik Evropy, 1886 as "Романс".
1 Tolstaya: "Я" ("Ja")2 Rachmaninov: "тучи" ("tuchi")
3 Tolstaya: "Открываются тихо мечты" ("Otkryvajutsja tikho mechty")
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Text Authorship:
- by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Романс", written 1885, first published 1886 [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 Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (1870 - 1921), "Я тебе ничего не скажу", op. 2 (Романсы и Песни) no. 1, published 1893 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Lippold (1845 - 1910), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov (b. 1840), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Я тебе ничего не скажу", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 2 (1886), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Tatyana Konstantinovna Tolstaya (1862 - 1918), as Tatyana Tolstaya, "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "I will say nothing to you", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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