Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1

Composer: IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, Mikhail
  • Ippolitov-Ivanov composed Kavkazskiye ėskizï (Caucasian Sketches) Suite no.1, Op.10, in 1894.1
  • The suite was inspired in part by the Georgian folk music Ippolitov-Ivanov heard in the Caucasus Mountains in the 1880s.2

Sources

  1. Inna Barsova, “Ippolitov-Ivanov [Ivanov], Mikhail Mikhaylovich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 30, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013893.
  2. Luke Howard, “Caucasian Sketches, Suite No.1, Op.10,” program notes to Stokowski Celebration at the Academy of Music, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia: The Academy of Music, June 22, 2012, accessed October 30, 2019, https://www.philorch.org/sites/default/files/concert/pdfs/Stokowski%202.pdf.

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