Solovei; Соловей (The nightingale)

Song TitleSolovei; Соловей (Search)
Title in EnglishThe 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 Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22909
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsNeoclassicism (Search)
Original LanguageRussian (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 KeyD minor (Search)
NotesIt 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 SourceAlyabev, Selected Romances and Songs; ISBN 978-5-7140-0332-5 (Search)
Sources CitedWikipedia (Search)
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