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Text Authorship:

• by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), "Сероглазый король", written 1910, appears in Вечер = Vecher (Evening), no. 28, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Сероглазый король" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), "Сероглазый король", op. 27 no. 5 (1916), from Пять стихотворений Ахматовой (Pjat' stikhotvorenij Akhmatovoj) = Five poems by (Anna) Akhmatova, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le roi aux yeux gris", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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