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Dark Eyes (ver. 1) by Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
Dark Eyes (Russian: Очи чёрные, Ochi chyornye; English translation: Black Eyes; French translation: Les yeux noirs) is a Russian song. The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843. The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage (in an arrangement by S. Gerdel') and published as a romance on 7 March 1884. Although often characterised as a Russian gypsy song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian poet and a German composer: Florian Hermann. Feodor Chaliapin popularised the song abroad in a version amended by himself. Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka (Ukrainian: Євген Павлович Гребінка, 2 February 1812, Ubizhyshche, Poltava gubernia - 15 December.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka (Ukrainian: Євген Павлович Гребінка, 2 February 1812, Ubizhyshche, Poltava gubernia - 15 December 1848, Saint Petersburg) was a Ukrainian romantic writer and poet. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. His works first started being published in 1831. In 1834 he published "Little Russian Fables" in Moscow which, because of its vivid and pure language, wit, laconic style, and attention to ethnographic detail, ranks among the best collections of fables in Ukrainian literature. Many of his lyrical poems, such as A Ukrainian Melody (1839) became folk songs. Hrebinka is recognized as a leading representative of the so-called "Ukrainian school" of Russian literature. Many of his Russian language works include Ukrainian themes, such as Stories of a Pyriatynian (1837), the historical poems Getman Svirgovskii (1839) and Bogdan (1843), the novelette The Nizhen Colonel Zolotarenko (1842), and the novel Chaikovskii (1843). In 1843 he wrote a poem Dark Eyes that would later become a famous Russian song with the same name. Dark Eyes (Russian: Очи.
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