Ljubov' mertveca; Любовь мертвеца (A dead man's love)

Song TitleLjubov' mertveca; Любовь мертвеца (Search)
Title in EnglishA dead man's love (Search)
Composer(s):Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский)
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (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 LinePuskaj kholodnoju zemleju; Пускай холодною землею (Search)
Average Duration4:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1878 (Search)
Larger WorkШесть романсов; Six Romances (Search)
Musical FormArch form ABCBA (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsRomanticism; Pre-realism (Search)
Original LanguageRussian (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 LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 38 no. 5 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMiddle voice
Range: C3 - F4 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Dedicated ToAnatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Анатолий Ильич Чайковский (Search)
NotesAn 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 Citedhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/tchaikovskys-complete-songs-a-companion-with-texts-and-translations/oclc/46835585; http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Main_Page (Search)
ContributorMRH , Morgan Horning (Search)
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