Impromptu (Fet, set by N. Medtner) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Mojego tot bezumstva zhelal kto smezhal
`etoj rozy zavoji, i blestki i, rosy,
Mojego tot bezumstva zhelal kto svival
`eti tjazhkim uzlom nabezhavshie kosy!

Zlaja starost' khotja by vsju radost' vzjala
a dusha moja tak zhe pred samym zakatom
priletela b so stonom sjuda kak pchela
okhmelet' upivajas' takim aromatom.

I soznanije schast'ja na serdce khranja
stanu bujstva ja zhizni zhivym otgoloskom
`etot med blagovonnyj on moj dlja menja
pust drugim on ostanetsja tonkim lish' voskom.

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Authorship

Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820-1892)

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

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951)

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