Turgenev - Foggy morning (with notes). A

Music by Arkady Abaza
Words by Ivan Turgenev

Foggy morning, gray morning,

Glances, so greedily, so timidly caught,

Quiet voices, beloved sounds.

You will remember a lot of things dear and distant,

November 1843, words

Valery Agafonov sings

The original title of the poem is “On the Road”, dedicated to Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), the Spanish singer, Turgenev’s muse, and written in the year of their meeting.

In November 1843, Turgenev met Polina Viardot at Demidov’s house in St. Petersburg and dedicated the poem “On the Road” to her, written under the impression of a break with Tatyana Bakunina.
Viardot (1821-1910), the daughter of Spanish artists Manuel and Joaquina García, was one of the most notable women of the 19th century. A magnificent singer, intelligent, multi-talented, although not very beautiful, she was friends with many celebrities of her time.

Franz Liszt gave her piano lessons. Her closest friend was the famous French writer George Sand, who based her Consuelo on her. The French poet and playwright Alfred de Musset fell passionately in love with her when she was very young, immediately discerning brilliant talent, intelligence and education in her, proposed to her, but was refused. Fryderyk Chopin valued her not only as a singer, but also as a composer. Charles Gounod dedicated the opera “Sappho” to her, and Camille Saint-Saens dedicated the opera “Samson and Delilah” and the first performer of the role of Delilah was Viardot.

Galina Kareva sings

They knew many happy days. Turgenev's letters to Viardot are a wonderful love affair that lasted almost forty years, and the poems of the first days of Turgenev's acquaintance with Viardot largely reflected the future moods of the writer throughout the rest of his life.

Musicbased on the poem "On the Road" created by G.L. Catoire (1888), J.F. Prigogine (1890s)

A.F. Gedicke (1903). But the most widespread was the romance with music composed by Abaza.

Boris Shtokolov sings

However, without doubting the name of the composer, the debate about who exactly wrote the romance is still ongoing. In music publications, the composer's initials are written differently - sometimes A. Abaza, then Y. Abaza, then V. Abaza.
The composer could be:
ARKADY MAKSIMOVICH ABAZA (1843 - 1915), Victor Abaza (1861 - 1918), Vladimir Abaza, Arnold Abaza, singers Yulia and Varvara Abaza.
Three Abaza brothers were officers of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, stationed in Tsarskoye Selo. All three played the guitar perfectly and were fans of the then fashionable hobby of gypsy singing. Some of the gypsy romances are signed: “Music of the Abaza brothers.”

The wife of one of them is Yulia Fedorovna Abaza (1830-1915). was a singer and published a large number of romances, which she loved to perform, thus securing h but their authorship, which seemed to arise during re-release, when the “from the repertoire” stamp was omitted.

Performed by Georgy Vinogradov

One day in Tsarskoe Selo, on the square in front of the palace, there was a parade, with which the king was dissatisfied. An order followed: not a single officer from the regiment should be released to St. Petersburg. It was like being arrested. Suffering from boredom, the hussars decided to invite a gypsy choir to join them. Songs were played all night, the floor trembled with dancing, and guitars tinkled during breaks.
Dawn has broken. It became white outside the windows. Fluffy snow covered everything around...
“How beautiful, how good,” said Erast Abaza. - Foggy morning, gray morning... Turgenev wrote wonderfully...

Dmitry Hvorostovsky sings

Having received news of the death of Erast Ageevich, Turgenev wrote to P.V. Annenkov: “It’s a pity for poor Abazu. Of the whole family, he was the only one who was decent.”
E. Abaza’s authorship of the romance music is confirmed by the Krugozor magazine in 1971 and the engraved musical line of “Foggy Morning” on the grave of Erast Ageevich.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883).

OPTIONS

1. Foggy morning

Foggy morning, gray morning,
The fields are sad, covered with snow...
Reluctantly you remember the past time,
You will also remember faces long forgotten.

Do you remember the abundant, passionate speeches,

First meetings, last meetings,
Quiet voices, beloved sounds.

Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,

Listening to the incessant chatter of the wheels,
Looking thoughtfully into the wide sky.

Valentina Ponomareva sings

2. Foggy morning

Foggy morning, gray morning,
The fields are sad, covered with snow,
Reluctantly you remember the past time,
You will also remember faces long forgotten.

Do you remember the abundant, passionate speeches,
The glances, so greedily and tenderly caught,
First meeting, last meeting,
Quiet voices, beloved sounds.

Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
You will remember a lot, long forgotten,
Listening to the incessant chatter of the wheels,
Looking thoughtfully into the wide sky.

And this is Vladimir Vysotsky singing

In November 1843, Turgenev met Polina Viardot at Demidov’s house in St. Petersburg and dedicated the poem “On the Road” to her, written under the impression of a break with Tatyana Bakunina.
Viardot (1821-1910), daughter of Spanish artists Manuel and Joaquina García, was one of the most notable women of the 19th century. A magnificent singer, intelligent, multi-talented, although not very beautiful, she was friends with many celebrities of her time.

She sang in almost all European capitals. But still, she owed her fame most of all to her St. Petersburg seasons. Vilardo Alyabyev’s performance of “The Nightingale” has become a legend. Aleksey Pleshcheev, Vladimir Benediktov, Apollon Grigoriev dedicated poems to her. Each time she left Russia, showered with precious gifts. But more valuable than gifts and all awards was Turgenev’s love for her.
They knew many happy days. Turgenev's letters to Viardot are a wonderful love affair that lasted almost forty years, and the poems of the first days of Turgenev's acquaintance with Viardot largely reflected the future moods of the writer throughout the rest of his life.

Musicbased on the poem "On the Road" created by G.L. Catoire (1888), J.F. Prigogine (1890s)

A.F. Gedicke (1903). But the most widespread was the romance with music composed by Abaza.

However, without doubting the name of the composer, the debate about who exactly wrote the romance is still ongoing. In music publications, the composer's initials are written differently - sometimes A. Abaza, then Y. Abaza, then V. Abaza.
The composer could be:
Arkady Maksimovich Abaza (1843 - 1915), Victor Abaza (1861 - 1918), Vladimir Abaza, Arnold Abaza, singers Yulia and Varvara Abaza.
Three Abaza brothers were officers of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, stationed in Tsarskoe Selo. All three played the guitar perfectly and were fans of the then fashionable hobby of gypsy singing. Some of the gypsy romances are signed: “Music of the Abaza brothers.”

Performed by Georgy Vinogradov

I.S. Turgenev was a frequent guest in Abaza’s house. Concerts were held here, in which prominent musicians Rubinstein, Venyavsky, K. Davydov took part. Even before the theatrical premiere of “Eugene Onegin,” Abaza staged a concert performance of the opera for the first time in St. Petersburg.
One day in Tsarskoe Selo, on the square in front of the palace, there was a parade, with which the king was dissatisfied. An order followed: not a single officer from the regiment should be released to St. Petersburg. It was like being arrested. Suffering from boredom, the hussars decided to invite a gypsy choir to join them. Songs were played all night, the floor trembled with dancing, and guitars tinkled during breaks.
Dawn has broken. It became white outside the windows. Fluffy snow covered everything around...
“How beautiful, how good,” said Erast Abaza. - Foggy morning, gray morning... Turgenev wrote wonderfully...

Dmitry Hvorostovsky sings

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883).

OPTIONS

And this is Vladimir Vysotsky singing

FOGY MORNING

Music by Arkady Abaza
Words by Ivan Turgenev

Foggy morning, gray morning,

Glances, so greedily, so timidly caught,

November 1843, words

Collection "Yesterday and Today", 1845

Russian songs and romances / Intro. article and comp. V. Guseva. - M.: Artist. lit., 1989. - (Classics and contemporaries. Poetic book) - under the title. "On the Road", without indicating the author of the music.

The original title of the poem is “On the Road”, dedicated to Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), the Spanish singer, Turgenev’s muse, and written in the year of their meeting. In different sources, there is confusion in the authorship of the most popular melody - often “music by V. Abaza” or “music by Yulia Abaza (?-1915?)” (see, for example: Shine, burn, my star! Composer and music editor S. V. Pyankova. Smolensk: Rusich, 2004).

In addition to this melody, romances based on the poem were created by George Catuar (1888), Jacob Prigogine (1890s) and Alexander Goedicke (1903).

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883).

Arkady Maksimovich Abaza(August 11, 1843, Sudzhansky district of Kursk province - January 16, 1915, Kursk) - composer, pianist, teacher and public figure. Author of popular romances. The music classes he founded in Kursk were graduated, among others, by the pop star Nadezhda Plevitskaya and the composer Nikolai Roslavets.

NOTES:

Shadows of the past: Ancient romances. For voice and guitar / Comp.

A. P. Pavlinov, T. P. Orlova. - St. Petersburg: Composer St. Petersburg, 2007.

1. Foggy morning

Foggy morning, gray morning,
OPTIONS (3)
The fields are sad, covered with snow...
Reluctantly you remember the past time,

You will also remember faces long forgotten.

Do you remember the abundant, passionate speeches,
First meetings, last meetings,

Quiet voices, beloved sounds.
Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
Listening to the incessant chatter of the wheels,

Looking thoughtfully into the wide sky.

The last line of the couplets is repeated

2. Foggy morning

Foggy morning, gray morning,
Take my heart into the ringing distance...: Russian romances and songs with notes / Comp. A. Kolesnikova. – M.: Sunday; Eurasia +, Polar Star +, 1996.
The fields are sad, covered with snow...
Reluctantly you remember the past time,

You will also remember faces long forgotten.
The fields are sad, covered with snow,
First meetings, last meetings,

The glances, so greedily and tenderly caught,
Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
You will remember a lot, long forgotten,

Looking thoughtfully into the wide sky.

From the repertoire of Maria Narovskaya (1905-1973)

Black eyes: An ancient Russian romance. - M.: Eksmo Publishing House, 2004. - signature: music by V. Abaza, words by I. Turgenev.

Foggy morning, gray morning,
3. Foggy morning
The fields are sad, covered with snow...
The fields are sad, covered with snow. You will also remember faces long forgotten.

You will also remember faces long forgotten.
2 times
Glances, so greedily and tenderly caught.
First meeting, last meeting, You will also remember faces long forgotten.

The glances, so greedily and tenderly caught,
Quiet voices, beloved sounds.
Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
You will remember a lot, long forgotten, You will also remember faces long forgotten.

You will remember a lot of things dear and distant,

From the 1990s songbook

NOTES FOR PIANO (2 sheets):

Kulev V.V., Takun F.I. Golden collection of Russian romance.

Arranged for voice with piano (guitar) accompaniment. M.: Modern music, 2003.

NOTES FOR PIANO, version (2 sheets):

Ancient romances. For singing with piano. Ed. Az. Ivanova.
L., Muzgiz, 1955. - the note indicates that the romance is given in a new edition. The text is the same as in the repertoire of Maria Narovskaya (see above).

The history of the creation of the romance
The morning is foggy, the morning is gray.
(On the road)
Foggy morning, gray morning,

The fields are sad, covered with snow,
Reluctantly you remember the past time,
You will also remember faces long forgotten.
Do you remember the abundant passionate speeches,

Glances, so greedily, so timidly caught,
First meetings, last meetings,
Looking thoughtfully into the wide sky.

I.S. Turgenev November 1843

This verse is often read like this,
But they don't leave reviews.
Someone made a playcast on the Internet,
Flights for inspiration.

Romance "Foggy Morning"
Probably everyone knows him.
But here is the story of its creation
Mysterious and very interesting.

Firstly, there have been debates for a long time,
About who wrote the music
To the poems, there were conversations,
That it’s not Abaza, but a sister,

His brother's wives
Well, in general there are different opinions here.
But it was confirmed by the author
Erast Abaza without a doubt.

It is also believed that poetry
To Bakunin's sister Tatyana
Turgenev dedicated these
Upon completion of the novel.

Other critics believe
Romance to Pauline Viardot,
The writer tenderly dedicates,
But there is another view.

History is shrouded in mystery
And everyone has the right to choose
Who will like any
Of the versions, accept that one.

But most interesting of all, just
Last guess.
The same third addressee
It is important.

In the estate of the writer's mother
Among the serf maidens
Evdokia lived for hire,
From seamstresses.

She was modest and pretty
And Ivan fell in love with her,
And mother found out about it,
And she even whipped her son.

And this girl immediately
She left the house.
Ivan was upset, of course.
But he just obeyed.

And then, passing along the road,
He remembered his former passion.
And the line is so sad,
It surfaced and a romance was born.
_______________________________

“Foggy morning, gray morning...
The fields are sad, covered with snow...

Will you remember the separation with a strange smile,
You will also remember faces long forgotten."
_________________________________

These are the assumptions
The emergence of romance.
Three completely different opinions
And everyone has a chance.

To be recognized as the main reason,
Or perhaps the main one.
But understand thoroughly
Only critics in that problem.

For a long time we could not correctly establish the origin of the melody that we hear in concerts today. Why are the author's initials different in different music books? The authorship was attributed to the singers Yulia Abaza and her sister-in-law Varvara Abaza, because the romance was published as a composition from their repertoire. Some sources indicate the author of the music to M. Begichev, but it could also be Victor Abaza (1861 - 1918), Arkady Maksimovich Abaza (1843 - 1915), Vladimir Abaza, Erast Aggeevich Abaza (1819 - 1855), Arnold Abaza. For example, Erast, a naval officer who died in the Crimean War of 1855 and is buried in the Fraternal Cemetery in Sevastopol, has the musical line “Foggy Morning” engraved on his tombstone.

There is another opinion that seems most plausible. “Foggy Morning” (“On the Road”) is perhaps dedicated not to a noble lady, but to a simple worker on a landowner’s estate.
Among the many serf girls-craftswomen, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva, the writer’s mother, had one “seamstress” girl, named Evdokia Ermolaevna Ivanova, who lived for free hire. She was femininely modest, silent and pretty. It was she who attracted, and then fell in love with, the young master Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: “Gazes so greedily, so timidly caught, first meetings, last meetings, beloved sounds of a quiet voice.”
Varvara Petrovna found out about her son’s first love, flared up, and even, they say, flogged her with her own hands, but it was impossible to correct the matter, although Evdokia Ivanova was immediately removed forever from Spassky. Indeed, she moved to Moscow, where on Prechistenka, on the first floor of a small house, she rented a two-room apartment and worked on her handicrafts. There in Moscow, on May 8, 1842, a daughter, Pelageya, was born to Turgenev and Evdokia Ivanova. And in a year and a half, Ivan Turgenev will travel on a hazy November morning (remember the subtitle of the poem - “On the Road”) across the Oryol expanses to the big city. He drives and listens to the murmur of the wheels, surveying the foggy distances, and remembers, remembers his Dunyasha. The torn up road, on the sides of which lies crow Rus', seems to the rider an evil homewrecker, and the thick haze does not give any hope for a clear future. And involuntarily it came out of my heart: “A foggy morning, a gray morning... Sad fields, covered with snow... You will remember the separation with a strange smile.”

Source https://bibliodvorik12.blogspot.com/2013/09/blog-post_3.html

It seems that it is difficult to find a person who has not heard the famous romance “Foggy Morning”. Nevertheless, there are many mysteries associated with this romance. The author of the words is I. S. Turgenev, the author of the music is Abaza. For a long time we could not correctly establish the origin of the melody that we hear in concerts today. Why are the author's initials different in different music books? Romances based on I. S. Turgenev’s poem “On the Road” were created by G. L. Catoire (1888), J. F. Prigogine (1890s) and A. F. Gedike (1903). But the most widespread was the romance with music composed by Abaza. The composer could be each of the representatives of a famous family: Arkady Maksimovich Abaza (1843 - 1915), Victor Abaza (1861 - 1918), Vladimir Abaza, Arnold Abaza, or singers Yulia and Varvara Abaza. And also brothers Alexander, Vasily, Erast Abaza.

Three Abaza brothers were officers of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, stationed in Tsarskoe Selo. All three played the guitar perfectly and were fans of the then fashionable hobby - gypsy singing. Some of the gypsy romances are signed: “Music of the Abaza brothers.”

The wife of one of them is Yulia Fedorovna Abaza (maiden name Stubbe) (1830-1915). was a famous singer and published a large number of romances, which she loved to perform, thus securing her authorship, which seemed to arise during re-release, when the “from the repertoire” stamp was omitted..

I.S. Turgenev was a frequent guest in Abaza’s house. Concerts were organized in which prominent musicians took part.

Even before the theatrical premiere of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin,” Abaza staged a concert performance of the opera for the first time in St. Petersburg.

One day in Tsarskoe Selo, on the square in front of the palace, there was a parade with which the emperor was dissatisfied. An order followed: not a single officer from the regiment was allowed to go to St. Petersburg. It was like being arrested. Suffering from boredom, the hussars decided to invite a gypsy choir to join them. Songs were played all night, the floor trembled with dancing, and guitars tinkled during breaks.

Dawn has broken. It became white outside the windows. Fluffy snow covered everything around...

How beautiful, how good,” said Erast Abaza. - Foggy morning, gray morning... Turgenev wrote wonderfully...

And he began to quietly hum the familiar lines. The chords replaced each other. A melody was born. At first, in a low voice, then more and more loudly, a choir of gypsies echoed the singer. Thus, at the dawn of a frosty morning, the melody of the romance “Foggy Morning” was born. Let us now return to the author of the music. The magazine "Krugozor" - No. 8 for 1971 published an article in which Erast Aggeevich Abaza was confidently named as the author of the music. He was born on April 1, 1819, and came from the nobility. Elena Alexandrovna Meshcherskaya, daughter of Prince Alexander Vasilyevich Meshchersky, managed to find materials in her father’s manuscripts where he talks about his former fellow soldiers. In 1843 - 1850 A.V. Meshchersky served in the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, where three Abaza brothers served with him: Erast, Alexander and Vasily. Three Abaza brothers were officers of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, stationed in Tsarskoye Selo. All three played the guitar perfectly, composed their own songs, and were fans of the then fashionable hobby of gypsy singing. Some of the gypsy romances are signed: “Music of the Abaza brothers.” Elena Alexandrovna, referring to her father’s memoirs, calls Erast Abaza, the most talented of the brothers, the real author of the romance “Foggy Morning”.

About the personality of E.A. Unfortunately, very little is known about Abaza and his life. Erast Aggeevich Abaza is a gifted amateur musician. Among his comrades he was known as a guitarist and gambler. Perhaps the game would have ruined him if he had not one day discovered an icon in his field bag, who knows how it got to him. The superstitious and religious hussar took the find as a warning from above and renounced the cards.

“When the Crimean War began, many officers of the Guards Hussar Regiment began to transfer to army infantry regiments in order to get to the front. Among them was E. A. Abaza, who was appointed commander of the battalion located in Sevastopol. The combat activities of Erast Aggeevich Abaza in Sevastopol did not last long. On the night of May 10, 1855, fierce fighting broke out on the 5th bastion.

The fifth bastion was part of the first distance of the defensive line under the command of Major General A. O. Aslanovich. During the period of defense, the construction of lodgements (trenches), which played a major role in strengthening the defensive line, was also widely developed. The first lodgment was laid on the night of November 21, 1854 in front of the Schwartz redoubt. Since that time, the system of advanced fortifications began to develop.

The trenches were dug in two rows: the riflemen were in front, the second line was occupied by reinforcements. The French even formed a detachment of volunteers to attack the lodgements. In April 1855 they managed to capture the trenches in front of the Schwartz redoubt. In order to secure the fifth bastion, it was decided to build a bridgehead on Cemetery Heights, strengthen it with batteries, lay lodgements at Quarantine Bay and connect them together. For these works, the Podolsk and Warsaw regiments and two battalions of the Zhitomir regiment were appointed under the overall command of S. A. Khrulev. On the night of May 9–10, the defenders captured Cemetery Heights. The fortifications changed hands several times.

Khrulev brought reinforcements into the battle - seven companies of the Uglitsky regiment, two battalions of the Minsk regiment and gained a foothold on the heights. The lodgements at Quarantine Bay remained with the French. After this battle, Major of the Zhitomir regiment E.A. Abaza was mortally wounded. This is how the death of Abaza is described at Meshchersky: “At night after the battle, the major went, accompanied by only one non-commissioned officer, to the battlefield to see if there were any wounded from his battalion left there. From time to time both stopped and examined the faces of the dead in the dim light of the lantern. Some wounded French soldier rose from the ground and shot the major in the back. Major E.A. Abaza was mortally wounded and soon died.” Having received news of the death of Abaza, Turgenev wrote to P.V. Annenkov: “It’s a pity for poor Abaza. Out of the whole family, he was the only one who was decent.”

The grave of Major Abaza, as such, has not survived. During the Great Patriotic War, the fraternal cemetery was more than once the site of fierce battles. But the text of the epitaph from the lost monument at the grave of E.A. was discovered. Abaza: “Here lies the ashes of Major of the Zhitomir Jaeger Regiment Erast Aggeevich Abaza. Died from a wound received in an affair with the Anglo-French on the night of May 10-11, 1855.” The surname Abaza heads the list of dead officers of the Zhitomir regiment, carved on the wall of the memorial church of St. Nicholas in Sevastopol.

“In 2003, at the Fraternal Cemetery, designed by architect G.S. Grigoryants, a new monument was erected at the supposed burial site of Erast Aggeevich Abaza. This is a stele made of light gray granite in the form of a stylized cross and a scroll, on which a line of music is carved with the notes of the romance “Foggy Morning” - “The Glory of Sevastopol” wrote about Erast Aggeevich on November 15, 2007.

In memory of Erast Aggeevich Abaza, his name remains in the history of the Crimean War, as well as his name carved on the wall of the Church of St. Nicholas, and a new street named after Abaza in Sevastopol in the area of the 7th kilometer of the Balaklava Highway, named so in May 1992. And, of course, such a wonderful romance, not forgotten over the years.

Abaza did not live to see his morning on May 11, 1855. He, like the other dead, was transported on a cart with a lit candle in his hands to the Brotherly Cemetery. “In calm weather these candles were lit, and the picture of the bastion with these lights flickering over the dead was so sad and solemn.”

But the romance still lives on. For almost 170 years, the unforgettable “Foggy Morning” has been playing on the concert stage and in our souls, thanks to the talent of two wonderful people - the writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and the amateur musician, guards officer Erast Aggeevich Abaza.

Foggy morning, gray morning,

The fields are sad, covered with snow,

Reluctantly you remember the past time,

You will also remember faces long forgotten.

The fields are sad, covered with snow,

Glances, so greedily, so timidly caught,