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	The words of [[Anton Rubinstein]]'s '''''Twelve Persian Songs''''' ([[TH]] 334 ; [[ČW]] 633-644) <ref name="note1"/>, were translated from German to Russian by Tchaikovsky in December 1869, at the request of [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] <ref name="note2"/>:		The words of [[Anton Rubinstein]]'s '''''Twelve Persian Songs''''' ([[TH]] 334 ; [[ČW]] 633-644) <ref name="note1"/> were translated from German to Russian by Tchaikovsky in December 1869, at the request of [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] <ref name="note2"/>:

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The words of [[Anton Rubinstein]]'s '''''Twelve Persian Songs''''' ([[TH]] 334 ; [[ČW]] 633-644) <ref name="note1"/>, were translated from German to Russian by Tchaikovsky in December 1869, at the request of [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] <ref name="note2"/>:

# '''Nicht mit Engeln''' (Зулейка)
# '''Mein Herz schmückt sich''' (Как на земле)
# '''Seh' ich deine zarten Füsschen''' (Как увижу твои ножки)
# '''Es hat die Rose sich beklagt''' (Розан)
# '''Die Weise guter Zecher ist''' (Тому, кто хочет жить)
# '''Ich fühle deinen Odem''' (Нас по одной дороге)
# '''Schlag' die Tschadra zurück''' (Скинь чадру с головы)
# '''Neig', schöne Knospe''' (Нераспустившийся цветочек)
# '''Gelb rollt mir zu Füssen''' (Кубится волною)
# '''Die helle Sonne leuchtet''' (Над морем солнце)
# '''Thu' nicht so spröde''' (Не будь сурова)
# '''Gott hiess die Sonne glühen''' (Велел Создатель)

[[Anton Rubinstein]]'s ''Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy'', Op. 34 (1851), were set to words by "Mirza-Shaffi" — actually a pseudonym of the German writer Friedrich Bodenstedt (1819-1892). In 1877 Tchaikovsky wrote to [[Nadezhda von Meck]]: "[[Anton Rubinstein|Rubinstein]]'s ''Persian Songs'' were set to a German text by the poet Bodenstedt. Bodenstedt (a translator of [[Lermontov]] and [[Pushkin]]) wrote some verses in imitation of Hafiz and invented the name of Mirza-Shaffi, an imaginary author of Persian plays, for them. I happen to know that Bodenstedt (whom I met last year in [[Bayreuth]]) knows no Persian. I did the translation from the German" <ref name="note3"/>.

Tchaikovsky's translations of the songs were published by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in 1870 <ref name="note4"/>.

The manuscript of Tchaikovsky's translation is now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2|a-g-rubinshteyn-persidskie-pesni-opus-34-12-pesen-mirzy-shafi-v-perevode-f-bodenshtedta-perevod-s-nemeckogo|(ф. 88, No. 176)}}.

==External Links==
* {{imslpscore|12_Lieder_des_Mirza-Schaffy,_Op.34_(Rubinstein,_Anton)|12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op.34 (Rubinstein, Anton)}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Entitled "Persian Songs" in [[ČW]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">See [[Letter 171]] to [[Vasily Bessel]], 21 December 1869/2 January 1870.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 679]] to [[Nadezhda von Meck]], 6/18 December 1877.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Passed by the censor on 18 February/2 March 1870.</ref>
</references>
[[Category:Translations]]
[[Category:Songs]]

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