by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
Translation by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)
Цветок засохший, безуханный
Language: Russian (Русский)
Цветок засохший, безуханный, Забытый в книге вижу я, И вот уже мечтою странной Душа наполнилась моя. Где цвел, когда, какой весною? И долго ль цвел, и сорван кем? Чужой, знакомой ли рукою? И положен сюда зачем? На память нежного ль свиданья Или разлуки роковой, Иль одинокого гулянья В тиши полей, в тени лесной? И жив ли тот, и та жива ли? [И где их нынче]1 уголок? Или [уже они]2 увяли, Как сей неведомый цветок?
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Medtner: "И нынче где их" ("I nynche gde ikh")
2 Medtner: "они уже" ("oni uzhe")
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- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), first published 1832 [author's text not yet checked 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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Цветок", published 1832 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olga Ivanovna Baramishvili (1907 - 1956), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd (1852 - 1920), "Цветок", op. 7 (Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in German (Deutsch), also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Aronovich Brailovsky (1899 - 1942), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Цветок", op. 19 (Семь романсов и дуэтов = Sem' romansov i du`etov (Seven romances and duets)) no. 3 (1881), published 1881 [ voice and piano ], St Petersburg, Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Цветок засохший" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Цветок", op. 36 (Шесть стихотворений А. Пушкина (Shest' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Цветок засохший", op. 51 (5 романсов на слова Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (5 romansov na slova Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 4 (1897) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Цветок", VWV 1018 [ voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies sur les Poésies Russes, no. 1, Éd. E. Gérard & Cie., anciennement Meissonnier, also set in French (Français), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Louis Pomey (1835 - 1901) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by A. Aleksandrova ; composed by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Maria Bach, Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Catulle Mendès) , "La Petite fleur", appears in Petits poèmes russes, in 1. Pouchkine, no. 2, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, first published 1893
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Word count: 76
La Petite fleur
Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)
Fleurette sans parfum, flétrie En ce vieux livre où nul ne lit. Mon âme en te voyant s’emplit D’une inquiète rêverie. Où t’ouvris-tu ? sous quelle aurore ? Pour plus d’un jour ? ou sans demain ? Une étrangère ou tendre main Te mit-elle où tu meurs encore, En souvenir d’une première Caresse ou d’un suprême adieu Ou d’un retour sous le ciel bleu Dans les bois d’ombre ou de lumière ? Vit-il, joyeux ? Vit-elle, heureuse ? Où le sort les a-t-il menés ? Ou bien sont-ils déjà fanés Comme toi, fleur mystérieuse ?
Confirmed with Catulle Mendès, Petits poèmes russes, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, 1893, pages 7-8.
Text Authorship:
- by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), "La Petite fleur", appears in Petits poèmes russes, in 1. Pouchkine, no. 2, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, first published 1893 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), first published 1832
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: 2018-08-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 86