Product Description:

The original piano suite, one of the great piano masterworks, along with virtually all of Moussorgsky’s other piano compositions, including the well-known piano arrangement of the "Hopak of the Merry Young Ukrainians" from the opera The Fair at Sorochintsy, and the Allegro and Scherzo from the incomplete Sonata in C Major for piano four hands, reprinted from an authoritative Russian edition.

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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486265153
ISBN 13: 9780486265155
Author/Editor: Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Format: Music Scores
Page Count: 224
Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 12 1/4
Publication date: December 1990

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Table of Contents：
Souvenir d'enfance [Childhood Memory/Vospominanie detstva] (1857; dedicated to Nikolai Aleksandrovic Obolenski)
Scherzo in C-sharp Minor: 1st version (1858; dedicated to Liubov Mikhailovna Bube)
Scherzo in C-sharp Minor: 2nd version (dedicated to Aleksandra Fëdorovna Izvolskaia)
"Ein Kinder-Scherzo (A Child's Scherzo): 1st version [Jeux d'enfants-les quatre coins. Scherzo/Detskie igrï-ugolki (LITERALLY "Children's games-Puss in the corner"). Skertso] (1859; dedicated to Nikolai Aleksandrovic Levašev)"
Ein Kinder-Scherzo: 2nd version (1860)
Impromptu passionné (Souvenir de Beltov et Liouba): 1st version [Passionate Impromptu (Recollection of Beltov and Lyuba/Vospominanie o Bel'tov I Liube] (1859; dedicated to Nadežda Petrovna Opocinina)
Impromptu passionné: 2nd version (1859)
"Sonata in C Major for piano four hands [Sonate pour piano à quatre mains/Sonata dlia fortepiano v 4 ruki] (1860), incomplete"
I: Allegro assai
II: Scherzo
"From Memories of Childhood [Souvenirs d'enfance/Izvospominanii detstva] (1865; dedicated to the memory of his mother), incomplete"
1. Nurse and I [Niania et moi/Niania i ia]
2. "First Punishment (Nurse Shuts Me in a Dark Room) [Première punition (Niania m'enferme dans le cabinet noir)/Pervoe nakazanie: Niania zapiraet menia v tëmnuiu komnatu], incomplete"
Reverie (on a theme by Vyaceslav Alekseevic Loginov) [Rêverie/Duma] (1865; dedicated to Vyaceslav Alekseevic Loginov)
La capricieuse (on a theme by Count Login Geiden) [The Capricious One/Šalun'ia] (1865; dedicated to Nadežda Petrovna Opocinina)
Intermezzo symphonique in modo classico: 1st version [Symphonic Intermezzo in the Classic Manner] (1860-61)
Intermezzo symphonique in modo classico: transcription of orchestral version (1867; dedicated to Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin)
Pictures at an Exhibition [Tableaux d'une exposition/Kartinki s vïstavki] (1874; dedicated to Vladimir Vasil'evich Stasov)
Promenade [Promenade/Progulka]
1. Gnomus [Gnome/Gnom]
2. Il vecchio castello [The Old Castle/Starii zamok]
3. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) [Tuileries (Children's Quarrel after Playing)/Tiul'eriiskii sad (Ssora detei posle igrï)]
4. Oxen (The Oxcart) [Bydlo/Bïdlo]
5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks [Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques/Balet ne vïlupivišikhsia ptentsov]
6. "Two Jews, One Rich and the Other Poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle) [Deux juifs l'un riche et l'autre pauvre/Dva evreia, bogatïi I bednïi]"
7. Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle) [Limoges. The Market (The Big News)/Limož. Rïnok (Bol'shaia novost')]
8. Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum [Catacombs. Roman Sepulchre/Katakombï. Rimskaia grobnitsa]
9. The Hut on Chicken Legs (Baba Yaga) [La cabane sur des pattes de poule (Baba-Jaga)/Izbuška na kur'ikh nožkakh (Baba-Iaga)]
10. "The Great [Heroes'] Gate (in the Capital, Kiev) [La grande porte (Dans la capitale de Kiev)/Bogatïrskie vorota. V stol'nom gorode vo Kieve]"
On the Southern Shore of the Crimea (Gurzuf near the Ayu-dag. From travel notes) [En Crimée (Ghourzouff. Notes de voyage)/Na iužnom beregu Krïma. Gkhurzuf u Aiu-daga (Iurzuf). Iz putevïkhzametok] (1880; dedicated to Dar'ia Mikhailovna Leo
Meditation: Album Leaf [Méditation: Feuillet d'album/Razdum'e: Listok iz al'boma] (1880)
Une larme (Quasi fantasia) [A Tear/Sleza] (c.1880)
The Seamstress: Scherzino [La couturière: Scherzino/Šveia: Skertsino] (1871)
Near the Southern shore of the Crimea: Capriccio (Baidari. Gurzuf near the Ayu-dag. From travel notes) [En Crimée. Capriccio (Ghourzouff. Notes de voyage)/Bliz iužnogo berega Krïma. Baidarki kapricio. Gkhursuf u Aiu-daga (Iurzuf). Iz putevïkhzametok] (1880)
In the Village [Au village/V derevne] (c. 1880; dedicated to Ivan Fëdorovic Gorbunov)
"Fair Scene, from The Fair at Sorochinsty [Scène de foire, de l'opéra "La foire de Sorotchintsy"/Iarmarocnaia stsena iz operï "Sorocinskaia iarmarka"] (arr. 1880)"
"Hopak of the Merry Young Ukrainians, from The Fair at Sorochintsy: 1st version [Hopak de jeunes ukrainiens gaillards/Gopak veselïkh parobkov] (arr. 1880)"
Hopak of the Young Ukrainians: 2nd version (arr. 1880)