In the brilliant galaxy of poets of the Pushkin era, A. Delvig stands out as the creator of masterpieces of Russian romance, including "My Nightingale, My Nightingale", set to music by A. A. Alyabyev and M. I. Glinka, the elegy "When, my Soul, you Asked for it" to the music of the lyceum poet comrade M. L. Yakovlev and composer A. S. Dargomyzhsky,"Not an autumn frequent rain", about which M. I. Glinka recalled: "Delvig wrote me a romance " Not an autumn frequent Rain". The music for these words I later took for Antonida's romance "I grieve not for that, my friends", in the opera "Life for the Tsar" (cit. by: A. Delvig. Poems, L., 1951, P. 272). Delvig was clearly aware of the genre of his works, calling them romances, that is, creating them for song performance. The poet himself was extremely musical. The image of singing Delvig was imprinted in biographical information and in memoirs about him. His romances were inspired by A. A. Alyabyev and M. I. Glinka (the romance "Don't Say: Love will pass..."), P. P. Bulgakov, A. S. Dargomyzhsky, V. Zhdanov and I. Rupini (the romance" A Beautiful Day, a Happy Day"), F. S. Akimenko, P. P. Schenk and V. A. Zolotarev (the romance "A Beautiful Day, a Happy Day").Only I recognized you"), A. E. Varlamov (the romance" The Lonely Month sailed, swaying in the fog"), M. L. Yakovlev (the romance "Yesterday of Bacchanalian friends"). Especially fond of Delvig's songwriting was A. A. Alyabyev, who composed music not only for the poet's romances, but also for his "Russian songs", which are stylized folk songs. What is the secret of the charm of Delvig's poems, which still continue to excite the hearts of readers and listeners of his romances? They always talk about the soul: "Why should I extinguish my soul? page 3 glittering desires?"; "And pure joy flew Into my gloomy soul"; "And in us the soul boiled in your summers"; " The days of enchantment that have passed, I cannot return you to my soul!". But the greatest place is given to the sou ... Read more