Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1: “In the Mosque”

Composer: IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, Mikhail

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  • This movement is based on a folk melody which Ippolitov-Ivanov collected from Batumi, a city on the coast of Georgia.
  • The movement is meant to depict the evening call to prayer followed by a sunset.1

Sources

  1. 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.

Cut IDs

17998