Nikolay Ogaryov
Tchaikovsky Research
Russian poet, writer and revolutionary (b. 28 November/10 December 1813 in Saint Petersburg; d. 12 June [N.S.] 1877 in Greenwich, London), born Nikolay Platonovich Ogaryov (Николай Платонович Огарёв) [1].
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Ogaryov
Ogaryov's poem At Bedtime (На сон грядущий), probably written in the early 1840s, was used by Tchaikovsky in his student chorus At Bedtime (1863/64), and in the song of the same name as No. 1 of the Six Romances and Songs, Op. 27 (1875).
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Notes and References
- ↑ Sometimes transliterated as "Ogarev".
