Kavatina (Kukol'nik, set by M. Glinka) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Davno li roskoshno
ty rozoj cvela,
no zhizni neprochnoj
minula vesna.

I znojnogo leta
paljashchej krasoj
i, pyshno odeta,
blestysh predo mnoj,
i chudno mercan'je
vechernej zvezdy,
i chudno sijan'je
tvojej krasoty.

Davno li roskoshno
ty rozoj cvela,
no zhizny neprochnoj
minula vesna.

Jarko denica gorit,
svezhej krasoju manit.
Net, ne otdam ja tebja,
chudnaja deva moja!
Nezhnaja rosa vzoshla,
junoj krasoj rascvela.
Net, ne otdam ja tebja,
chudnaja deva moja!

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Authorship

Nestor Vasil'yevich Kukol'nik (1809-1868)

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

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Proshchanije S. Peterburgom

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