Alexander Blok - Musical Settings

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 LouriĆ© 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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