Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky : Work List

• Orchestra
  •  Dance of the Persian Slaves, from “Khovanshchina” (1886) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3323/4231/timp.perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  •  Hopak - arranged for orchestra 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2.2.2/4231/timp.2perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   Liadov, A. C.

  •  Hopak from the opera, “Sorochinsk Fair” 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   0222/4230/timp.perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   ed. by Vissarion Shebalin

  •  Intermezzo Symphonique in Modo Classico (1867) - 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/4231/timp.perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  •  Introduction 5 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2.2/4231/timp.perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   Liadov, A.

  •  Introduction and Polonaise - concert version 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic).2+ca.3.3/4.2+2cnt.3.1/timp.perc (4)/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimskij-Korsakow, Nikolaj

  •  Khovantchina - Introduction 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/4000/timp.perc/hp/str

  •  Night on Bare Mountain (1867) - 12 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2.2.2/4231/timp.2perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   completed/arr: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  •  Night on Bare Mountain (1867) - 17 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3222/4.2+2cnt.3.1/timp.perc/str

  •  Night on the Bare Mountain 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3222/4231/timp.perc/hp/str

  •  Overture, Prologue - arranged for instruments 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2.3(bcl).2/4331/timp.3perc/hp/pf/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  Pictures at an Exhibition 35 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic)3(ca)33/4331/timp.5perc/2hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   Maurice Ravel

  •  Pictures at an Exhibition (Gorchakov version) 31 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3343/4332/timp.perc.chm.glock.xyl/hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Sergei Gorchakov

  •  Pictures at an Exhibition (Heyn version) 31 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1.1.1.asx.1/1111/timp.perc/pf/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Walter Thomas Heyn

  •  Pictures at an Exhibition (Leonardi version) 31 minute(s)

    Orchestration   3(pic)2+ca.2+bcl.ssx.2asx.3tsx.2dbl bn/perc/2hp/pf.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Leonardi, Leonidas

  •  Prelude “Morning on the Moscow River” 7 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/4.0.0.0/timp.perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  Scherzo And Intermezzo 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/4231/timp.perc/str

  •  Scherzo in B-flat major 8 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2222/2230/timp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

• Soloist(s) and Orchestra
  •  “Sleep, sleep, peasant’s son” 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.1.0.0/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  “Where art thou, little star,” song [#4] 4 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2.0.2+bcl.2/0000/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  1. Trepak - arranged for orchestra - from ’Songs and Dances of Death - Four dramatic scenes’ 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Mezzo Soprano]

    Orchestration   2222/2230/timp/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  2. Lullaby - arranged for orchestra - from ’Songs and Dances of Death - Four dramatic scenes’ 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Mezzo Soprano]

    Orchestration   2.1+ca.2.2/2200/timp/str

    Arranger / Editor   Labinsky, S

  •  3. Serenade - arranged for orchestra - from ’Songs and Dances of Death - Four dramatic scene 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Mezzo Soprano]

    Orchestration   2.1+ca.2.2/2200/timp.perc xyl/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   Liapunov, A

  •  4. Commander in Chief - arranged for orchestra - from ’Songs and Dances of Death - Four dramatic 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Mezzo Soprano]

    Orchestration   3(pic).1+ca.2.2/4231/timp.3perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   Liapunov, A

  •  Boris’s Monologue from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Orchestration   3.1+ca.2+bcl.2/4331/timp/str

  •  Duet of Marina and Tsarevich Dmitri from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Mezzo soprano, Tenor

    Orchestration   1+pic.1+ca.3.2/4331/timp.perc/str

  •  Hopak, from Two Songs 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   mezzo soprano

    Orchestration   2222/2000/2perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  King Saul, song 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Tenor

    Orchestration   2222/4230/timp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Glazunov, A.

  •  Marfa’s Prophecy from the opera, “Khovanshchina” 7 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   mezzo soprano

    Orchestration   2+pic.2.2.2/4230/timp.perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   : Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  Marfa’s Song from the opera, “Khovanshchina” 2 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   mezzo soprano

    Orchestration   2.2(ca).2.2/2000/timp.perc (ad lib.)/str

    Arranger / Editor   Borg, Kim

  •  Mephistopheles’ Song of the Flea 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Bass]

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2.2/4231/timp/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Igor Stravinsky

  •  Night, song 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2+pic.0.2+bcl.0/3000/timp/hp/cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  The Nursery (Denisov version) (1977) - 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Voice

    Orchestration   2222/4331/perc/hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   trans. by Edison Denisov

  •  The Nursery (Shchedrin version) (1974) - 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Voice

    Orchestration   3322/4331/timp.2perc/hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   trans. by Rodion Shchedrin

  •  On the Dnieper, song 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2.2.2+bcl.2/4221/timp.2perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  Pimen’s Tale and the Death of Boris from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 10 minute(s)

    Chorus   BB

    Arranger / Editor   Mussorgskij, Modes

  •  The Song of the Flea 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Bass]

    Orchestration   2+pic.1+ca.2+bcl.2/4231/perc/2hp/str

  •  Songs and Dances of Death (Denisov version) 16 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Orchestration   222+bcl.asx.0/4331/perc/hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   orch. by Edison Denisov

  •  Songs and Dances of Death (Raskatov version) (1877) - 28 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Orchestration   orchestra

    Arranger / Editor   orch. by Alexander Raskatov

  •  Songs and Dances of Death (Rimsky-Korsakov version) 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Orchestration   2(pic).2+ca.2+bcl.1+cbn/4231/timp.perc.xyl/hp/cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Rimsky-Korsakov

  •  Songs and Dances of Death (Shostakovich version) 24 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2222/4231/timp.perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   orch. by Dmitri Shostakovich

  •  Sunless, song cycle 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone [=Mezzo Soprano]

    Orchestration   2.1.2.1/2000/timp.2perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Borg, Kim

  •  Sunless, song cycle and 3 additional songs 25 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone

    Orchestration   3223/4331/timp.perc/hp.cel/str
    (pf)

    Arranger / Editor   ed. by Heinz Reinhard Zilcher

  •  Sunless. Vocal Cycle (1981) - 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Voice

    Orchestration   222+2bcl.asx.0/4331/timp.perc/hp.cel/str

    Arranger / Editor   orch. by Edison Denisov

  •  Die The Magpie, song 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2/3.1.1.0/timp.2perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  The Ragamuffin, song [#5] 2 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2/4221/timp.perc (3)

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Markevitch, I.

  •  Varlaam’s Song from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Orchestration   2+pic.2.2+bcl.2/4231/timp.3perc/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

• Works for Band/Wind/Brass Ensemble
  •  Pictures at an Exhibition, for Brass Band 35 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Ebthn.Ebscnt+3Bbcnt.Bbflg.2Bbtbn+btbn.2Ebtba+BBbtba.2Bbbar.2Bbeuph/2perc(timp)

    Arranger / Editor   Elgar Howarth

  •  Pictures at an Exhibition, for Brass Ensemble 35 minute(s)

    Orchestration   4hn.Bbpictpt(Ctpt)+Ebpictpt(Bbpictpt,Dflg)+3Ctpt(Bbpictpt)+Bbflg(Ctpt).2tbn+btbn.2btba.euph/perc

    Arranger / Editor   Elgar Howarth

• Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument
  •  The Song of the Flea

    Soloist(s)   Baritone

    Orchestration   pf
    (TTBB/pf)

• Chorus and Orchestra/Ensemble
  •  "What means this sadness” from the unfinished opera, “Salambo” 4 minute(s)

    Chorus   SSAA

    Orchestration   2.1+ca.2.2/4.0.0.0/timp/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   arr. by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  Boyar’s Chorus from Act IV, scene 1 of the opera, “Boris Godunov”

    Soloist(s)   Lamm, Pawel

    Chorus   TTBB

    Arranger / Editor   Lamm, Pavel

  •  Coronation Scene from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 10 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Tenor, 2 Basses

    Chorus   SSAATTBB

    Orchestration   3(pic).2.2.2/4231/timp.3perc/hp.pf(2)/str/stage music: bells.tamtam

  •  The Gritsko’s dream from the opera, “Sorochinsk Fair” 9 minute(s)

    Chorus   Chorus

    Orchestration   2+pic.222/4231/timp.2perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   orch. by Shebalin

  •  Joshua 8 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2222/4231/timp.3perc/hp/str

  •  Scene at St. Basil’s Cathedral from the opera, “Boris Godunov” 15 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATTBB/Children's chorus

    Orchestration   3(pic).2.2.2/4230/timp/str

  •  Temple Scene from the tragedy, “Oedipus” 3 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2222/4230/timp/str

• Solo Voice(s) and up to 6 players
  •  Enfantines

    Orchestration   Voice/pf

  •  Sunless Voice

    Orchestration   Voice/pf

• Opera and Music Theatre
  •  Boris Godunov - original version (1868/69)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano, 3 Mezzo sopranos, [1=Soprano], Alto, 6 Tenors, 2 Baritones, 6 Basses

    Chorus   SSAATTBB, child ch

    Orchestration   3(pic).2(ca).2.2/4231/timp.4perc/hp/pf(4ms)/str /stage music: tpt

    Arranger / Editor   Lamm, Pavel

  •  Boris Godunov (Rimsky-Korsakov 1908 edition)

    Soloist(s)   2 Sopranos, 3 Mezzo soprano [1=Soprano], 2 Altos, 7 Tenors, 2 Baritones, 7 Basses

    Chorus   SSAATTBB, child choir

    Orchestration   3(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).2/4331/timp.4perc/hp/pf/str

    Arranger / Editor   Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  •  Boris Godunov (Rimsky-Korsakov version) (1874)

    Soloist(s)   2 Baritones, 6 Basses, 3 Mezzo Sopranos, 2 Sopranos, 7 Tenors

    Chorus   SATB chorus

    Orchestration   3(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).2/4331/timp.perc.bells/2hp.pf/str

  •  Boris Godunov (Shostakovich version) (1874) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   3 Baritones, 7 Basses, 3 Mezzo Sopranos, 2 Sopranos, 6 Tenors

    Chorus   SATB chorus

    Orchestration   3343/4331/timp.perc.glock/cel.pf.2[=4]hp.[opt balalaika.[opt domra]/str; stage band: 2hn, 2thn, 2cnt, 4tpt, 2bar, 2tba; balalaika and domra (ad lib)

    Arranger / Editor   Orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich (Op. 58, 1940)

  •  Khovanshchina (Lamm-Shostakovich edition) (1886)

    Soloist(s)   6 Basses, 6 Tenors, Baritone, Alto, 2 Sopranos

    Chorus   SATB chorus; ballet

    Orchestration   3322/4231/timp.perc/pf.cel.2hp/str; stage band: 2hn, 3tpt, 3tbn

    Arranger / Editor   ed. by Lamm-Shostakovich

  •  Khovanshchina (Rimsky-Korsakov edition) 2 Hour(s) 40 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   2 Sopranos, Mezzo soprano, 5 Tenors, 2 Baritones, 5 Basses

    Chorus   SSAATTBB

    Orchestration   3(pic).2.2.2/4231/timp.4perc/hp/pf/str/stge music: 4tpt

    Arranger / Editor   completed and arr. by Nikolai Rimsky, Korsakov

  •  Night on Bare Mountain from the opera, “Sorochinsk Fair” 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass

    Chorus   SATB chorus

    Orchestration   3222/4.2+2cnt.3.1/timp.perc/hp/str

    Arranger / Editor   ed. by Shebalin, Vissarion

  •  Sorochinsk Fair (Shebalin version)

    Soloist(s)   Singers

    Chorus   chorus

    Orchestration   3222/4.2+2cnt.3.1/timp.perc/hp.pf/str

    Arranger / Editor   Completed and orch. by Shebalin, Vissarion

  •  Sorochinsk Fair (Tcherepnin version)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano, Mezzo soprano, 4 Tenors, 2 Baritones [=Basses], 3 Basses

    Chorus   SATB/SATB

    Orchestration   3(pic).2+ca.2.2/4331/timp.4perc/hp/pf/str

    Arranger / Editor   completed and arr. by Tcherepnin, Nikolai