One of this composer's songs has the refrain "lullaby, lullaby" sung by Death in lento funesto sections that alternate with agitato sections in which a mother defends her dying baby.
One of this composer's songs has the refrain "lullaby, lullaby" sung by Death in lento funesto sections that alternate with agitato sections in which a mother defends her dying baby. That song belongs to a cycle of poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov. Dmitri Shostakovich orchestrated that cycle for Galina Vishnevskaya and responded to it in his Symphony No. 14. Another song cycle by this composer includes "With Nanny" and "In the Corner" and inspired Debussy's Children's Corner Suite. This composer of The Nursery and Songs and Dances of Death made a piano arrangement of the Gopak he wrote for an unfinished opera based on a Gogol story, The Fair at Sorochyntsi. A recurring theme from another piece by this composer alternates between 5/4 and 6/4 time and is called "Promenade." For 10 points, name this composer of Pictures at an Exhibition.
One of this composer's songs has the refrain "lullaby, lullaby" sung by Death in lento funesto sections that alternate with agitato sections in which a mother defends her dying baby.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky