Great Composers - Mussorgsky

1 Introduktion
2 4. Cattle
3 Recalling his time spent in Berlin in the 1830s, the Russian literary critic Pavel Annenkov declared: "Every Russian...
4 Kamarinskaja (Fantasie über 2 russische Volkslieder)
5 If Glinka was the fountainhead of Russian music, his offspring - in a musical sense - included Mily Balakirev, César...
6 Intermezzo in modo classico (Version 2, 1867)
7 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on 21 March 1839 into a wealthy, land-owning family in the provincial town of...
8 Porte-enseigne ("Ensign") Polka
9 After being commissioned an officer in the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards, Mussorgsky met a...
10 Scherzo in cis-moll
11 Another personal crisis appears to have occured a couple of years later, in the summer of 1860, while Mussorgsky was...
12 8. The Catacombs (Roman Tomb)
13 Another extract from Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition, this a movement titled catacombs.
14 Der Seminarist
15 The following year, 1867, Mussorgsky finished an orchestral project that he seems to have had in mind for several...
16 Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge (Sinfonische Dichtung)
17 That Mussorgsky never heard this tone-poem in performance is perhaps not surprising, given the work's immediate...
18 Vot tak nachnyosh etak ("Here is how you start...") (1. Akt, Szene 1)
19 Despite his bold proclamation of his compositional intentions in Marriage, Mussorgsky would go on to call the opera a...
20 Introduktion (Prolog, Szene 1)
21 A final passage from Boris Godunov furnishes another example of a folk-inspired musical style.
22 Flow, bitter tears (4. Akt, Szene 1)
23 Here at the end of the opera, Mussorgsky paints a sorrowful picture.
24 Introduktion. Dawn on the Moscow River (1. Akt)
25 At the time Mussorgsky was working on Khovanshchina, Boris finally premiered at the Mariinsky.
26 1. Promenade 1
27 In between the seemingly happenstance occurrences of Mussorgsky's Promenade theme are movements that function as...
28 2. The Old Castle
29 Yet, as with Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition features contrasting styles.
30 5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
31 1874 was a busy year: besides working on the Pictures suite and Sunless songs, Mussorgsky started another musical...
32 Nr. 3 Trepak
33 Mussorgsky started work on his Songs and Dances of Death in the first half of 1875, but the cycle was not finished...
34 Lied des Mephistopheles (Flohlied)
35 Following Mussorgsky's dismissal from government service on 13 January 1880, the composer made further appearances as...
36 10. The Great Gate of Kiev