Ljubov' mertveca; Любовь мертвеца (A dead man's love)
Song Title | Ljubov' mertveca; Любовь мертвеца (Search) |
Title in English | A dead man's love (Search) |
Composer(s): | Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Mikhail I͡Urʹevich Lermontov (Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич (after Alphonse Karr)) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Absences; Addressee: Lover; Adoration; Agony; Always; Anguish; Another; Attachment; Beyond the Grave; Blessed; Breath; Bright; Bringing; Cherishing; Cold; Comfort; Commitments; Committing; Connecting; Connection Across a Distance; Connections; Constancy; Constant; Continuing; Couples; Covering; Dead; Death; Departed Love; Depth of Love; Desiring; Devotion; Dreams; Dwelling; Dying; Earthly; Enduring Love; Eternal; Eternal Love; Eternity; Evermore; Everywhere; Fearless; Final; Fire; Flowing; Forever; Forgetting; God; Graves; Ground; Hair; Hoping; Hours; Jealous; Kingdoms; Lands; Laying; Leaving; Longing; Lost Love; Love; Loving; Mad; Mute; Names; Oblivion; Paradise; Passions; Past; Peace; Precious; Relationships; Remaining; Same; Scorching; Separation; Shuddering; Souls; Taking; Torment; Touching; Waking; Weeping; Whispering; Words; World |
First Line | Puskaj kholodnoju zemleju; Пускай холодною землею (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1878 (Search) |
Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
Musical Form | Arch form ABCBA (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Pre-realism (Search) |
Original Language | Russian (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e8/IMSLP19056-PMLP44986-Tchaik_TH101.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/5czeZOWGI8gHSjzdXoua9y |
Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
Catalog Designation | Op. 38 no. 5 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Middle voice |
Range: | C3 - F4 (Search) |
Original Key | F Major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Anatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Анатолий Ильич Чайковский (Search) |
Notes | An imitation of Karr's "Le mort amoureux" ("The dead lover"); The entirety of Op. 38 is dedicated to Tchaikovsky's younger brother, Anatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Анатолий Ильич Чайковский (Search) |
Sources Cited | https://www.worldcat.org/title/tchaikovskys-complete-songs-a-companion-with-texts-and-translations/oclc/46835585; http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Main_Page (Search) |
Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |