Composers in Literature

[Robert A. Rothstein]

harlo at mindspring.com wrote:
> Lermontov also supposedly wrote music, including that for the famous 
> "folk song" Borodino set to his verses.
>   
It has been claimed that Lermontov wrote music for his "Kazach'ia 
kolybel'naia pesnia" (Spi, mladenets moi prekrasnyi...), but he doesn't 
seem to have been among the 23 composers who set "Borodino"  to music. 
In total more than a thousand composers have written music for more than 
240 of his poems, with the record (around 100 settings) held by "Na 
severe dikom stoit odinoko," his translation of Heine's "Ein Fichtenbaum 
steht einsam..."

Bob Rothstein

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