Solovei; Соловей (The nightingale)
Song Title | Solovei; Соловей (Search) |
Title in English | The nightingale (Search) |
Composer(s): | Aleksandr Aljabjev (Аля́бьев, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович) |
Author(s): | A. A. (Anton Antonovich) Delʹvig (Анто́н Анто́нович Де́львиг) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Nightingale; All night; Blue; Countries; Drowning; Eyes; Flying; Foreign; Insistent; Insomnia; Listening; Loneliness; Misery without Equal; Nightingales; Sad; Sadness; Seas; Shores; Singing; Tears; Villages |
Year of composition | 1825 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22909 |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Neoclassicism (Search) |
Original Language | Russian (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/15/IMSLP27369-PMLP60466-Nattergalen.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/1KpNVEs22GUuUdfPfrPnoS |
Range: | F4 - F5 (Search) |
Original Key | D minor (Search) |
Notes | It was composed while Alyabyev was in prison, in 1825. It has entered Russian consciousness as akin to a folk song. The song became more widely known after having been introduced into Rosina's singing lesson scene in Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville by Pauline Viardot, followed by Adelina Patti and Marcella Sembrich. Mikhail Glinka wrote piano variations based on the song, as did Mily Balakirev.[1] Franz Liszt also wrote a transcription of it (S. 250/1). It was one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's favourite songs from his earliest childhood, as his mother often sang it to him.[2] - Wikipedia (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | Alyabev, Selected Romances and Songs; ISBN 978-5-7140-0332-5 (Search) |
Sources Cited | Wikipedia (Search) |