| Song Title | Molitva; Молитва (Search)
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| Title in English | Prayer (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич) |
| Author(s): | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Admirers; Agony; Allowing; Anguish; Apathy; Ardent; Beholding; Blood; Carelessness; Confessions; Consequences; Creator; Crimes; Curing; Death; Deep; Distress; Distressing; Dying; Earth; Faith; Fickleness; Forgiving; Glances; God; Great; Grief; Grieving; Health; Hearing; Heartache; Hearts; Heavenly; Hidden Love; Ignoring; Illness; Inconstancy; Indifference; Inspecting; Keeping; Knowing; Lacking; Looking; Love; Memory; Miserable; Mourning; Myself; Neglecting; None; Noticing; Observing; Pain; Pains; Passage of Time; Pity; Poor; Prayers; Praying; Pure; Recalling; Refusing Lovers; Regret; Regrets; Regretting; Remembering; Remembrance; Remorse; Sacred; Sadness; Secrecy; Secret; Secrets; Shame; Sickness; Silence; Sin; Sinners; Slight; Smiling; Sorrow; Sorrowful; Sorrows; Soul; Souls; Spirit; Suffering; Tearing; Telling; Torment; Torn; Tragedy; Transgressions; Turmoil; Understanding; Woes; Young; Youthful |
| First Line | O, Bozhe moj! Vzgljani na greshnuju menja; О, Боже мой! Взгляни на грешную меня (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1893 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=12859 |
| Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Sturm und Drang; Innerlichkeit (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/59/IMSLP07159-Rachmaninov_-_Op._8,_No._6.pdf
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| Audio Source |
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QOGRd5weAYT1nQZ5i2uZu
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| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 8 no. 6 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | C4 - A5 (Search) |
| Original Key | C minor (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Mariya Adrianovna Deysha-Sionitskaya; Мария Адриановна Дейша-Сионицкая (Search) |
| Notes | translation of "Sieh mich, Heil'ger, wie ich bin, eine arme Sünderin" from German into Russian by Pleshcheyev, Aleksey Nikolayevich; Плещеев, Алексей Николаевич (Search) |
| Sources Cited | Rachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search) |
| Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search)
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