César Antonovich Cui
Life
Born: 6 January 1835 (Old Style)
Died: 13 March 1918
Biography
César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian brand of music. He held copious avocations in music: composition and journalism, and was the composer of 15 operas, orchestral music, choral music (mostly secular, some sacred), chamber music, piano music and hundreds of art songs.
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List of choral works
Sacred Choral
- Ave Maria, Op. 34, for 1-2 women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886)
- Three Psalms, op. 80, for mixed voices (1910)
- Song of the Most Holy Theotokos [Песнь Пресвятыя Богородицы = Pesn' presvjatyja bogorodicy] (i.e. the Russian Orthodox Magnificat), op. 93, for soprano solo and mixed voices (1914)
Secular Choral and Part-Songs
- Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin, Op. 4, for mixed voices with orchestra (1860)
- Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus) [Мистический хор = Mističeskij khor], Op. 6, for women's voices and orchestra or piano, text from Dante's Purgatorio (1871)
- Seven Choruses, Op. 28, for mixed voices (1885)
- Les oiseaux d'Argenteau," for children's voices (1887)
- Five Choruses, Op. 46, for mixed voices (1893)
- Six Choruses, Op. 53, for mixed voices (1895)
- Seven Little Duet-Choruses, Op. 101, for children's or women's voices, (1899) (not published)
- Zwei Lieder, Op. 58, for men's voices (1901)
- Seven Vocal Quartets, Op. 59, for mixed voices (1901)
- Воды
- Ризой бледно-голубою
- Beauty Concealed [Сокрытая красота] ( Sibelius 6)
- Я жал
- Васильки на полях
- Echo [Зой] ( Sibelius 6 )
- Неурожай («Над полями ходит»)
- Six Choruses, Op. 63, for mixed voices (1903)
- Seven Little Choruses on texts by Belousov, Op. 77 (1908)
- Thirteen Choruses, Op. 85, for women's and children's voices with piano (1911)
- Nine Vocal Quartets for men's voices, Op. 88 (1911-1912).
- March of the Russian Falcons [Марш русских соколов = Marsh russkikh sokolov, for mixed voices with piano (1912)
- Cantata in Commemoration of the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reign of the House of the Romanovs, 1613-1913, Op. 89, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1913)
- Your Poetic Art [Твой стих = Tvoj stikh], Cantata in Memory of M.Yu. Lermontov, Op. 96, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1914)
- They're Marching ["Идут" = "Idut"], for men's voices (1914)
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External links
- Wikipedia list of Cui's works, choral and otherwise
- Works by César Antonovich Cui in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)