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The music score of the "Song of the Flea" was published after Mussorgsky's death, in 1883 with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as the editor. Its orchestration by Igor Stravinsky became available in 1914. The "Song of the Flea" is probably the best known of the 65 or so songs that Mussorgsky composed. [1]
Mussorgsky: 1871: Bessel Song: Светская сказочка (Козёл) "A Society Tale (The Goat)" 1867: 1867-12-23: Mussorgsky: 1868: Iogansen Song: По над Доном сад цветёт "A Garden by the Don Blooms" 1867: 1867-12-23: Koltsov: 1883: Bessel Song: Классик "The Classicist" 1867: 1867-12-30: Mussorgsky: 1870 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Night (Mussorgsky song) Night on Bald Mountain; P. Pictures at an Exhibition; S. Song of the Flea This page ...
Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, IPA: [xɐˈvanʲɕːɪnə] ⓘ, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was ...
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[15] [b] From 1900 to 1910, over one hundred songs sold more than a million copies. [5] Various "hit songs" sold as many as two or three million copies in print. [11] [17] With the advent of the radio broadcasting, sheet music sales of popular songs decreased and print figures failed to make a significant recovery after the World War II (1940s ...
The only extended unrecycled music from The Mighty Handful's collaborative Mlada is Act 1, which was composed by Cui (except for inserted dance music assigned to Minkus). Although Cui borrowed a terzetto from it for his revision of Prisoner of the Caucasus in 1881–1882, the remainder of the act was not appropriated for other works.
In 1868, Mussorgsky rapidly set the first eleven scenes of Zhenitba, with his priority being to render into music the natural accents and patterns of the play's naturalistic and deliberately humdrum dialogue. Mussorgsky's aim was to create individual musical signatures for each character using the natural rhythms of the text. The composer noted: