Пленившись розой, соловей
И день и ночь поёт над ней;
[Но роза молча песням внемлет...]1
[Невинный сон её объемлет... ]2
На лире так певец иной
Поёт для девы молодой;
[Он страстью пламенной сгорает,]3
А дева милая не знает --
[Кому поёт он? отчего]4
Печальны песни так его?...

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² omitted by Artsybushev and Rimsky-Korsakov.
³ omitted by Rimsky-Korsakov
⁴ Artsybushev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rubinstein: "Кому поёт и отчего" ("Komu pojot i otchego")

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• by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Соловей" [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 Nikolai Vasil'yevich Artsybushev (1858 - 1937), "Восточная песня" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936), "Соловей", op. 4 (Пять романсов (Pjat' romansov)) no. 2 (1881-1885), published 1887? [ voice and piano ], also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by A. I. Gurovich , "Восточный романс" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin (1860 - 1918), "Соловей", published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Grigory Grigoryevich Lobachev (1888 - 1953), "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Восточный романс", op. 2 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2 (1866) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Соловей", op. 27 (Devjat' romansy = Neun Lieder von Kolzoff) no. 4, published 1849, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "Соловей", 1860, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: Gutheil [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov (1865 - 1927), "Пленившись розой, соловей" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944) , "Le rossignol" ; composed by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August von Viedert ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English [singable] (Constance Bache) (William Stigand, né Stigant) , "The nightingale and the rose"
• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "A nightingale", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Amanda Cole) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le rossignol", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Captivé par la rose, le rossignol
Chante jour et nuit au-dessus d'elle ;
Mais la rose écoute en silence son chant...
Plongée dans son rêve innocent
Et ainsi avec sa lyre un certain chanteur
Chante à une jeune fille ;
Il brûle d'une passion ardente,
Mais sa bien-aimée ne sait pas
À qui il chante et pourquoi
Ses chants sont si mélancoliques.