Leo Tolstoy

Poet

Leo Tolstoy

1817 - 1875

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.

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Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

Blagoslovlyayu vas, lesa ('I bless you, Forests') (1880) Op. 47 no.5 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Drobitsya, i pleshchet, i brizzhet volna ('The wave breaks') (1897) Op. 46 no.1 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Kaby znala ja, 'If only I'd known better' Op. 47 no.1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ne ver' moj drug, ('Do not believe it, my friend') (1869) Op. 6 no.1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nespyashchikh solntse, grustnaya zvezda 'Sun of the sleepless' (1897) Op. 41 no.1 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sleza drozhit ('A tear trembles') (1869) Op. 6 no.4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sred shumnovo bala ('Amid the din of the ball') (1878) Op. 38 no.3 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ti pomnish’li vecher (1893) Sergei Rachmaninov
To bylo ranneju vesnoj ('It was early spring') (1878) Op. 38 no.2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Uzh ty, niva moja, nivushka (1893) Op. 4 no.5 Sergei Rachmaninov

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