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TH 89
My Genius, My Angel, My Friend
Мой гений, мой ангел, мой друг
Song with piano accompaniment, C minor (late 1850s).
- Text by Afanasii Fet, from the first untitled poem in his cycle To Ophelia
[К Офелий] (1842).
- Composed sometime during the 1850s.
- Scored for low or medium voice with piano.
- Dedicated to '**' [Sergei Kireev]
- Average duration: 1m 40s.
History
This romance was composed, apparently, in the late 1850s, at the time when,
in the composer's own words, he had begun to write music "like a true amateur" [1]. On the manuscript
score, Modest Tchaikovsky
wrote: "1854". In the manuscript Tchaikovsky's romance has no title, but it
was named by Modest Tchaikovsky
when a facsimile of the first page of the manuscript was published in his biography
of the composer [2].
Published for the first time in 1940 [3].
From: Музыкальное наследие Чайковского
(1958),
p. 430
English text copyright © 2006 Brett Langston
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Не здесь ли ты легкою тенью,
Мой гений, мой ангел, мой друг,
Беседуешь тихо со мною
И тихо летаешь вокруг?
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И робким даришь вдохновеньем,
И сладкий крачуешь недуг,
И тихим даришь сновиденьем,
Мой гений, мой ангел, мой друг!
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А. А. Фет
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Notes:
- H. A. Laroche, Собрание музыкально-критических
статей. Том 2, часть 1 (1924), p. 41 [back]
- M. I. Tchaikovsky, Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского,
том 1 (1900), p. 128 [back].
- P. I. Tchaikovsky, Полное собрание сочинений,
том 44 (1940) and in the journal Советская музыка [Soviet Music] (1940),
Nos. 5-6 [back].
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