More than 120 composers, including Peter Tchaikovsky,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Sergei Rachmaninoff, gave
musical interpretations of almost 1500 works of Taras
Shevchenko (Тарас
Шевченко
;). Mykola Lysenko alone set 90 of his works to music.
Shevchenko was politically convicted and persecuted by
the Russian tsar and his police for explicitly
promoting the independence of Ukraine, writing poems in
the Ukrainian languag...(+)
More than 120 composers, including Peter Tchaikovsky,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Sergei Rachmaninoff, gave
musical interpretations of almost 1500 works of Taras
Shevchenko (Тарас
Шевченко
;). Mykola Lysenko alone set 90 of his works to music.
Shevchenko was politically convicted and persecuted by
the Russian tsar and his police for explicitly
promoting the independence of Ukraine, writing poems in
the Ukrainian language. His literary heritage is
regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian
literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian
language.
І блідий місяць на ту пору
Із хмари де-де виглядав,
Неначе човен в синім морі,
То виринав, то потопав.
Ще треті півні не співали,
Ніхто нігде не гомонів,
Сичі в гаю перекликались,
Та ясен раз у раз скрипів.
It roars and groans the wide Dnepr,
An angry wind there does blow,
Bending the tall willows down so low,
The waves in mountains are lifted up.
And the pale moon at that moment,
Among the clouds, here and there peeks out,
As like a boat upon the blue sea
It does rise and it does fall.
Yet the third roosters have not crowed,
No one, nowhere has made a sound,
The owls in the glen have called to each other,
And the ash tree one after another does creak.
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