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List of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky

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Musorgsky as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards

The following list of works by Modest Mussorgsky is, as of this writing, based on the Catalogue of Mussorgsky's Works from the book Modest Mussorgsky by M.D. Calvocoressi (Rockliff, London 1956). The catalog was compiled by Calvocoressi and Gerald Abraham. This is a work in progress.

« » = Composer's Original Titles (not used for standard musical terms)

[U] = Unfinished Composition

Orchestral Works

  • Scherzo in B flat major (1858)
  • Alla marcia notturna (1861)
  • Symphony in D major: Andante, Scherzo, and Finale [U] (1861-2)
  • «Иванова ночь на лысой горе» St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (1867)
  • Intermezzo symphonique in modo classico (1867)
  • «Торжественный марш: Взятие Карса» Triumphal march: The Capture of Kars (1880)

Piano Works

  • Souvenir d'Enfance (1857)
  • Scherzo in C sharp minor (1858)
  • Impromptu passionné (1859)
  • «Kinderscherz» Children's Games: Puss in the Corner
  1. Original Version (1859)
  2. Revised Version (1860)
  • Sonata in C major for piano duet: Allegro and Scherzo [U] (1860)
  • Intermezzo in modo classico (1861)
  • From the recollections of my childhood (1865):
  1. Nurse and I
  2. First Punishment: Nurse shuts me in the Dark Room
  • «Дума» Reverie (on a theme by Loginov) (1865)
  • La Capricieuse (on a theme by Heyden) (1865)
  • Scherzino: The Seamstress (1871)
  • «Картинки с выставки» Pictures from an Exhibition (1874)
  1. Promenade
  2. «Gnomus» The Gnome
  3. Promenade
  4. «Il Vecchio Castello» The Old Castle
  5. Promenade
  6. Tuileries
  7. Bydlo
  8. Promenade
  9. «Балет невылупившихся птенцов» Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
  10. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle
  11. Promenade
  12. «Limoges, le marché (La grande nouvelle)» The Market at Limoges (The Great News)
  13. «Catacombae» The Catacombs
  14. «Cum mortuis in lingua mortua» With the Dead in a Dead Language
  15. «Избушка на курьих ножках (Баба-Яга)» The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
  16. «Богатырские ворота (В стольном городе во Киеве)» The Bogatyr's Gate (in the Ancient City of Kiev)
  • On the Southern Shore of the Crimea
  1. Gurzuf
  2. Capriccio (1880)
  • Album leaf: Meditation (1880)
  • «Une Larme» A Tear (1880)
  • Quasi Fantasia: Au Village (?1880)
  • Sorochintsi Fair
  1. Fair Scene
  2. Hopak

Choral Works

  • Shamyl's March (Soloists/Chorus/Orchestra) (1859)
  • «Поражение Сеннахериба» The Destruction of Sennacherib (after Byron) (Chorus/Orchestra)
  1. Original Version (1867)
  2. Revised version (1874)
  • «Иисус Навин» Jesus Navin (Joshua) (Alto/Bass/Chorus/Piano) (1874-77)
  • Three Vocalises (Three-part Female Voices) (1880)
  • Five Russian Folksongs (Four-part Male Voices) [U] (1880)

Songs and Романсы

  • «Где ты, звёздочка?» Where art thou, little star? (Grekov)
  1. Original Version (1857)
  2. Revised Version [Orch](1858)
  • «Отчего, скажи, душа-девица» Tell me gentle maiden (Anonymous) (1858)
  • Du Meines Herzens Sehnsucht (Anonymous) (1858)
  • «Весёлый час» The Merry Hour (Koltsov)
  1. Original Version (1858)
  2. Revised Version (1859)
  • «Листья шумели уныло» The leaves rustled sadly (Pleshcheev) (1859)
  • «Что вам слова любви?» What are words of love to you? (Amossov) (1860)
  • «Много есть у меня теремов» I have many palaces (Koltsov) (1863)
  • «Песнь старца» Old Man's Song (Goethe: An die Türen will ich schleichen) (1863)
  • «Царь Саул» Tsar Saul (Byron/Kozlov) (1863)
  • «Но если-бы с тобою я встретиться могла» But if I could meet thee again (Kurochkin) (1863)
  • «Дуют ветры, ветры буйные» Wild winds blowing (Koltsov) (1864),
  • «Ночь» Night (Pushkin)
  1. Original Version (1864)
  2. Revised Version (1868)
  • «Калистрат» Kalistrat (Nekrasov)
  1. Original Version (1864)
  2. Revised Version (1864)
  • «Молитва» Prayer (Lermontov) (1865)
  • «Отверженная» A study in recitative: The Outcast Woman (I.G.M.) (1865)
  • «Колыбельная песня» Cradle Song (Ostrovsky) (1865)
  • Why do thine eyes reproach me? (Little One) (Pleshcheev) (1866)
  • «Ich wollt' meine Schmerzen ergössen» I wish my pain would flow (Heine) (1866)
  • «Aus meinen Tränen» From My Tears (Heine) (1866)
  • «Светик Савишна» Savishna (Musorgskiy) (1866)
  • You drunken sot (Musorgskiy) (1866)
  • «Семинарист» The Seminarist (Musorgskiy) (1866)
  • «Гопак» Hopak (Shevchenko/Mey)
  1. Original Version (1866)
  2. Revised Version [+Orch](1868)
  • «Днепр» The Dnieper (Shevchenko/Mey)
  1. Original Version (1866) (lost)
  2. Revised Version (1879)
  • «Еврейская песня» Hebrew Song (Mey) (1867)
  • The Magpie (Pushkin) (1867)
  • «По грибы» Gathering Mushrooms (Mey) (1867)
  • «ПирушкаThe Banquet» (Koltsov) (1867)
  • «Озорник» The Urchin (Musorgskiy) (1867)
  • «Козёл: Светская сказочка» The He-Goat: A Worldly Story (Musorgskiy) (1867)
  • «Классик» The Classicist (Musorgskiy) (1867)
  • «По над Доном сад цветёт» Garden by the Don (Koltsov) {1867}
  • «Сиротка» The Orphan (Musorgsky) (1868)
  • «Колыбельная Ерёмушки» Yerëmushka's Lullaby (Nekrassov) (1868)
  • «Детская песенка» Child's Song (Mey) (1868)
  • «Детская» The Nursery (Musorgskiy):
  1. «С няней» With Nanny (1868)
  2. «В углу» In the Corner (1870)
  3. «Жук» The Beetle (1870)
  4. «С куклой» With the doll (1870)
  5. «На сон грядущий» Going to Sleep (1870)
  6. «Поехал на палочке» The Hobby-Horse (1872)
  7. «Кот Матрос» Matros the cat (1872)
  • «Раёк» The Peep-show (Musorgskiy) (1870)
  • «Вечерняя песенка» Evening Prayer (Pleshcheev?) (1871)
  • «Без солнца» Sunless (Golenishchev-Kutuzov) (1874):
  1. «В четырех стенах» Between four walls
  2. «Меня в толпе ты не узнала» Thou didst not know me in the crowd
  3. «Окончен праздный шумный день» The idle, noisy day is ended
  4. «Скучай» Boredom
  5. «Элегия» Elegy
  6. «Над рекой» On the River
  • «Забытый» Forgotten (Golenishchev-Kutuzov) (1874)
  • The Epitaph (Musorgskiy) [U] (1874)
  • The Mound of Nettles [U] (Musorgskiy) (1874)
  • «Песни и пляски смерти» Songs and Dances of Death (Golenishchev-Kutuzov) (1875):
  1. «Колыбельная» Lullaby
  2. «Серенада» Serenade
  3. «Трепак» Trepak
  4. «Полководец» The Field-Marshal (1877)
  • Sphinx (Musorgskiy) (1875)
  • «Не божиим громом горе ударило» Not like thunder from heaven (A.K.Tolstoy) (1877)
  • «Горними тихо летела душа небесами» Softly the spirit flew up to heaven (A.K.Tolstoy) (1877)
  • «Спесь» Pride (A.K.Tolstoy) (1877)
  • Is spinning man's work? (A.K.Tolstoy) (1877)
  • «Рассевается, расступается» It scatters and breaks (A.K.Tolstoy) (1877)
  • «Видение» Vision (Golenishchev-Kutuzov) (1877)
  • «Странник» The Wanderer (Rückert/Pleshcheev) (1878)
  • «Песня о блохе» Song of the Flea (Goethe/Strugovshchikov) (1879)

Stage Works

  1. Original Version (1868-9)
  2. Revised Version (1871-2)
  • «Млада» Mlada (Opera-Ballet after Gedeonov/Krylov) [U] (1878)
  • «Хованщина» Khovanshchina (Opera after Musorgskiy) [U] (1872-80)
  • «Сорочинская ярмарка» Sorochintsï Fair (Opera after Gogol) [U] (1874-80)

Transcriptions and Arrangements

Lost Works

  • Porte-Enseigne Polka (1852)
  • Sonata in E flat major: Scherzo and Finale [U] (1858)
  • Sonata in F sharp minor (1858)
  • Preludio in modo classico (1860)
  • Menuet Monstre (1861)
  • Sonata in D: Scherzo (1862)
  • Fantasy: Storm on the Black Sea (1879)


Projected Works

  • Hans d'Islande (Opera after Hugo) (1856)
  • St John's Night (Opera after Gogol) (1858)
  • Podebrad (Symphonic Poem) (1867)
  • Bobyl: The Landless Peasant (Opera after Spielhagen) (1870)
  • Pugachevshchina (Opera after Pushkin) (1877)
  • Transcaucasian Suite (Orchestra/Harps/Piano) (1880)
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