Musical Settings
- Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a late song cycle for soprano and piano trio, Seven Romances of Alexander Blok
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg wrote a song cycle for soprano and piano, Beyond the Border of Past Days, op. 50
- Arthur Lourié wrote a choral cantata, In the Sanctuary of Golden Dreams.
- Alexander Blok was a favourite poet of Georgy Sviridov; such works as "Petersburg" (a vocal poem), "Nightly Clouds" (cantata) and "Songs From Hard Times" (concerto) were written to Blok's poetry.
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