O Delvig, Delvig! (Küchelbeker, set by D. Shostakovich) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


O Del'vig, Del'vig! Chto nagrada
I del vysokikh i stikhov? 
Talantu chto i gde otrada
Sredi zlodejev i glupcov?
V ruke surovoj Juvenala 
Zlodejam groznyj bych svistit
I krasku gonit s ikh lanit. 
I vlast' tiranov zadrozhala. 
O Del'vig, Del'vig, chto gonen'ja?
Bessmertije ravno udel 
I smelykh vdokhnovennykh del
I sladostnogo pesnopenja!
Tak ne umrjot i nash sojuz, 
Svobodnyj, radostnyj i gordyj! 
I v schast'je i v neschast'je tvjordyj
Sojuz ljubimcev vechnykh muz!

Input by John Versmoren

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Authorship

Wilhelm Küchelbeker (1797-1846)

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)

Symphony no. 14

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