Sunless (song cycle)
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Sunless is a song cycle
Song cycle
A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...

 by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

, written in 1874, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov
Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov
Arseny Arkadyevich Golenishchev-Kutuzov , was a Russian poet known in part for writing the texts of Modest Mussorgsky's two song cycles of the 1870s: Sunless and Songs and Dances of Death....

, a relative of the composer.

Song Titles

The individual song titles are as follows:
  1. «В четырех стенах» Within 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» Over the River

Appearance in Popular Culture

  • The piece was featured and discussed in the film-essay Sans Soleil
    Sans Soleil
    Sans Soleil is a 1983 French film directed by Chris Marker. The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky...

     by director Chris Marker
    Chris Marker
    Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...

    , receiving an electronic experimental interpretation by composer Isao Tomita
    Isao Tomita
    , often known simply as Tomita, is a Japanese music composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements...

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