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The Nursery is a
song cycleA song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...
by
Modest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
, composed between 1868 and 1872, set to his own lyrics.
Song Data
| Series |
Title |
Translation |
Date |
Dedication |
Pub. Date |
Publisher |
Notes |
| Series 1, No. 1 |
С няней |
With Nanny |
|
Aleksandr Dargomïzhsky Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Tchaikovsky....
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1872 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 1, No. 2 |
В углу |
In the Corner |
|
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1872 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 1, No. 3 |
Жук |
The Beetle |
|
Vladimir Stasov |
1872 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 1, No. 4 |
С куклой |
With the Doll |
|
Tanyushka and Goga Musorgsky |
1872 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 1, No. 5 |
На сон грядущий |
At Bedtime |
|
Sasha Cui |
1872 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 2, No. 1 |
Поехал на палочке |
Ride on a Stick Horse |
|
|
1908 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 2, No. 2 |
Кот Матрос |
The Cat 'Sailor' |
|
|
1908 |
Bessel |
|
| Series 2, No. 3 |
Сон |
Dream |
– |
– |
– |
– |
Projected or not written down |
| Series 2, No. 4 |
[Unknown] |
[Unknown] |
– |
– |
– |
– |
Projected or not written down |
Series 1
- 1. With Nanny
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- A child begs the nurse to tell a story, first about the awful bogey-man who carries naughty children into the forest and devours them, and later about a fairy-tale Tsar and Tsaritsa who live in a rich palace by the sea.
- 2. In the Corner
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- The nurse berates Mishenka for spoiling her knitting and sends him to the corner.
- 3. The Beetle
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- A child relates to the nurse an encounter with a large beetle.
- 4. With the Doll
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- A child sings a lullaby to her doll.
- 5. At Bedtime
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- A child recites his prayers.
Series 2
The two surviving songs of Series 2, along with new edition of the five songs of Series 1, were published by
V. Bessel and Co.V. Bessel and Co. was a musical firm founded in 1869 in St Petersburg by Vasily Vasil’yevich Bessel . His brother N. V. Bessel was a co-owner of the firm....
in 1908.
- 1. Ride on a Stick Horse
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- A child relating his imaginary journey to Yukki on a stick horse falls, injures himself, and resumes his journey.
- 2. The Cat 'Sailor'
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- A child foils the attempt by Matros ("Sailor") the cat to catch the family canary.
- 3. Dream
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- A child's fantastic dream
- 4. [Unknown title]
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- A quarrel between two children