NONE BUT THE LONELY  HEART........(for Solo Cello) by  P. TCHAIKOVSKY

Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed a set of six romances for voice and piano, Op. 6, in late 1869; the last of these songs is the melancholy "None but the Lonely Heart" .  It is a musical setting by Tchaikovsky of a Russian translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt", published in 1869........

This is my arrangement for solo cello of this very melancholy romantic song.... following are the lovely and touching lyrics (English translation) .....I have always thought Tchaikovsky's heart was filled with beautiful melodies....this is one of them....

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LYRICS (English translation)

None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted
Far from joy and gladness
Heaven's boundless arch I see
Spread out above me
O(h) what a distance drear to one
Who loves me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted far
From joy and gladness
Alone and parted far
From joy and gladness
My senses fail
A burning fire
Devours me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness