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CUI, César

Portrait of César Cui (1890), by Ilya Repin

Born in Vilnius, 6/Jan 18, 1835
Died in Petrograd [St Petersburg], March 26, 1918

  • Cui was a military engineer as well as a composer and music critic.1
  • He was a member of “The Five” or “The Mighty Handful” (Cui, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov)2 a group of mostly-amateur composers based in St. Petersburg, mentored by Balakirev, seeking to create a uniquely Russian composition style.3

Short biography

Sources

  1. Geoffrey Norris and Lyle Neff, “Cui, César,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 27, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006938.
  2. “César Cui,” Encyclopædia Brittanica (2019), accessed August 27, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesar-Cui.
  3. “The Five,” Encyclopædia Brittanica (2019), accessed August 27, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Five.

Pieces