The Rose and the Nightingale
(Роза и
Соловей -
Roza i Solovey) was composed in 1866 by the young and
not yet famous Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The composer
used the words of Alexei Koltsov's poem Nightingale:
Pushkin's Imitation, which was written in 1831. "The
Rose and The Nightingale" was written for someone
called Malvina Kyui, most likely Rimsly-Korsakov's
romantic interest. The music tells the story of
Nightingale, who fe...(+)
The Rose and the Nightingale
(Роза и
Соловей -
Roza i Solovey) was composed in 1866 by the young and
not yet famous Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The composer
used the words of Alexei Koltsov's poem Nightingale:
Pushkin's Imitation, which was written in 1831. "The
Rose and The Nightingale" was written for someone
called Malvina Kyui, most likely Rimsly-Korsakov's
romantic interest. The music tells the story of
Nightingale, who fell in love with a Rose and sings to
her all day and night, but the Rose just silently
listens to his songs.
The translation of the song is, "Nightingale fell in
love with Rose, and sings to her all days and nights,
but Rose silently listens to his songs. Other singer
plays the lyre for young maiden, but sweet maiden
doesn't know, to whom he sings and why his songs are so
solemn". Although written for Orchestra and arranged
for Flute & Piano, I created this transcription for
Viola and Acoustic Piano.
PARTITION