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Modest Mussorgsky

Sunless (song cycle)

Sunless (, Bez Solntsa, literally Without Sun) is a song cycle by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in 1874 and arranged for voice and piano. The song cycle is set to poems by Arseny

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

  • 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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Modest Mussorgsky