Sunless (song cycle)
Sunless (Russian: Без солнца, Bez Solntsa, literally Without Sun) is a song cycle by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in 1874, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.
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Mussorgsky in 1874
Song titles
The individual song titles are as follows:
- "В четырех стенах" ("Within four walls") – D major
- "Меня в толпе ты не узнала" ("Thou didst not know me in the crowd") – D major
- "Окончен праздный шумный день" ("The noisy festival day is ended") – C major
- "Скучай" ("Boredom: For the album of a fashionable young lady") – B minor
- "Элегия" ("Elegy") – B minor, ending in F-sharp minor
- "Над рекой" ("By the River") – C-sharp major
References in popular culture
- The piece was featured and discussed in the film-essay Sans Soleil by director Chris Marker, receiving an electronic experimental interpretation by composer Isao Tomita.
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