Svetlaja lichnost' (Dostoyevsky, set by D. Shostakovich) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


On neznatnoj byl porody,
On vozros sredi naroda,
No gonimij mest'ju carskoj,
Zlobnoj zavist'ju bojarskoj,
On obrjok sebja stradan'ju,
Kaznjam, pytkam, istjazan'ju,
I poshjol veshchat' narodu,
Bratstvo, ravenstvo, svobodu.
[`Ekh!]¹
 
I, vosstan'je nachinaja,
On bezhal v chuzhije kraji
Iz careva kazemata,
Ot knuta, shchipcov i kata.
A narod, vosstat' gotovyj
Iz-pod uchasti surovoj
Ot Smolenska do Tashkenta
S neterpen'jem zhdal studenta.
[`Ekh!]¹
 
Zhdal jego on pogolovno,
Chtob idti bezprekoslovno,
Poreshit' v konec bojarstvo,
Poreshit' sovsem i carstvo,
Sdelat' obshchimi imen'ja
I predat' naveki mshchen'ju
Cerkvi, braki i semejstvo!
[`Ekh!]¹
Mira starogo zlodejstvo!
[`Ekh!]¹

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¹ added by Shostakovich.

Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

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Authorship

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

Besy (The Devils)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Chetyrjokh stikhotvorenijakh kapitana Lebjadkina (Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin)

Date added to the website: 2008-12-30.

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