Pred ikonoj; Пред иконой (Before the image; Before the icon)

Song TitlePred ikonoj; Пред иконой (Search)
Title in EnglishBefore the image; Before the icon (Search)
Composer(s):Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич)
Author(s):A. A. (Arseniĭ Arkadʹevich) Golenishchev-Kutuzov (graf; Голенищев-Кутузов, Арсений Аркадьевич)
Keyword(s) & Features: Above; Adoration; Adoring; After; All; Another; Anxious; Apart; Asking; Before; Begging; Beseeching; Calling; Calls; Cheeks; Christ; Crossing; Darkness; Death of Love; Departed Love; Desperate; Despondent; Devotion; Divine Love; Down; Expecting; Eyes; Faces; Faith; Faithful; Falling; Flickering; Futility; Gazing; Glowing; God; Gone; Grief; Grieving; Ground; Hands; Heads; Helpless; Holy; Hope; Hopeful; Hopeless; Hoping; Humility; Icons; Idols; Impossible; Infinite; Jesus; Keeping; Kneeling; Lamps; Laying; Light; Lights; Lips; Little; Long; Loss; Lost Love; Love; Loving; Moving; Mute; Names; Night; No More; One; Pale; Pearls; Pleading; Pleas; Prayers; Praying; Pressing; Quiet; Repeating; Reverence; Rolling; Sadness; Savior; Silence; Silent; Solemn; Someone; Sorrow; Sorrowful; Sorrowing; Standing; Suffering; Tears; Voices; Weariness
First LineOna pred ikonoj stojala svjatoju; Она пред иконой стояла святою (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1902 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25403
Larger WorkДвенадцать романсов; Twelve Romances (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageRussian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/2b/IMSLP07298-Rachmaninov_-_Op._21,_No._10.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5UNwtlVkJIume1WFr4mfQU
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 21 no. 10 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMiddle voice
Range: Bb3 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyEb minor (Search)
Dedicated ToNataliya Nikolayevna Lanting; Наталия Николаевна Лантинг (Search)
Sources CitedRachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search)
ContributorMRH , Morgan Horning (Search)
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