For boy soprano or soprano and piano

Poor Fisherman

for Boy Soprano or Soprano and Piano

A brief song for boy soprano or soprano and piano, setting Russian text by Arseny Tarkovsky.

Year 2000

Duration 2′

Scoring Boy Soprano
or Soprano
Piano

Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
/ Sikorski

Auerbach Work Catalogue Abbreviations PDF

Text

Arseny Tarkovsky. Text in Russian: “Бедный рыбак.”

Premiere

14 July 2001. Lockenhaus · Yulia Korpacheva, soprano · Lera Auerbach, piano.

Form

Song. A compact vocal miniature for boy soprano or soprano and piano.

Structure

Poor Fisherman

Song for boy soprano or soprano and piano.
Text

Text in Russian by Arseny Tarkovsky: Бедный рыбак.
Duration

Approximately 2 minutes.

Work Information

Full Title

Poor Fisherman

Scoring

For boy soprano or soprano and piano.

Year

2000

Duration

2′

Text

Arseny Tarkovsky, Бедный рыбак. Text in Russian.

English Text

English text as printed in the score.

Premiere

14 July 2001 · Lockenhaus; Yulia Korpacheva, soprano / Lera Auerbach, piano.

Publisher

Published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski.

Instrumentation

Boy soprano or soprano and piano.
Abbreviations PDF

Poem

Бедный рыбак

Арсений Тарковский

Original Russian

Я рыбак, а сети в море унесло. Мне теперь на свете пусто и светло. И моя отрада в том, что от людей ничего не надо нищете моей.

Мимо всей Вселенной я пойду смиренный, тихий и босой за благословенной утренней звездой.

English Text as Printed in the Score

I’m a fisherman. My net was carried into the sea. The world is now empty and, oh, so light for me. And my consolation is that my poverty Needs nothing from the others.

Passing the whole Universe, I’ll walk; humble, Quite and bearfooted; Following the blessed Morning star.

English text as printed in the score

Listen

Educational listening access to Poor Fisherman for soprano and piano.

The Work

Poor Fisherman is a brief song for boy soprano or soprano and piano composed in 2000. The work sets Бедный рыбак, a Russian poem by Arseny Tarkovsky.

The poem’s image is one of radical simplicity: a fisherman whose nets have been carried away, left with nothing but poverty, lightness, humility, and the morning star.

Form Song.
Language Russian.
Forces Boy soprano or soprano and piano.

Context

Written in 2000, Poor Fisherman belongs to Auerbach’s voice-and-piano works on Russian poetic texts. Its first documented performance took place at Lockenhaus on 14 July 2001, with Yulia Korpacheva as soprano and Lera Auerbach at the piano.

The work is published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski and is listed in the Auerbach publisher catalogue.

Online Materials

Public links related to Poor Fisherman. Verified materials currently include educational listening and catalogue-reference listings.

All Audio Score Reference

Audio

On-page audio access for private educational listening.
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Reference

Auerbach Work Catalogue
Publisher catalogue PDF listing Poor Fisherman, its scoring, text source, duration, and first performance.
Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski
Catalogue

Lera Auerbach · Compositions
Official composition index listing Poor Fisherman among voice-and-piano works.
leraauerbach.com

Publisher and Materials

Published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski. The work is listed in the Auerbach publisher catalogue.