Rechnaja lileja; Речная лилея (Water lily)
| Song Title | Rechnaja lileja; Речная лилея (Search) |
| Title in English | Water lily (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич) |
| Author(s): | Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Плещеев, Алексей Николаевич (after Heinrich Heine)) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Admiring; Amorous; Azure; Bashfulness; Beams; Desiring; Drooping; Glimmering; Heads; Illumining; Imitation: Water; Longing; Looking; Lovesick; Melancholy; Metaphor: Flower as Lover; Metaphor: Moon as Lover; Metaphor: Physical Distance as Emotional Distance; Moon; Pale; Personification: Flowers; Personification: Moon; Phantoms; Raising; Seeking; Shy; Shyness; Silver; Sky; Timid; Water Lilies; Waters; Wishing |
| First Line | Rechnaja lileja, golovku podnjavshi na nebo gljadit; Речная лилея, головку поднявши на небо глядит (Search) |
| Average Duration | 1:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1893 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7728 |
| Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Young Germany (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/0a/IMSLP07154-Rachmaninov_-_Op._8,_No._1.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/6OJ0iPAdqtmfEJNSzhNWoa |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 8 no. 1 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Middle voice |
| Range: | B3 - G5 (Search) |
| Original Key | G Major (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Adolf Adolfovich Yaroshevsky; Адольф Адольфович Ярошевский (Search) |
| Sources Cited | Rachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search) |
| Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |