- This piece: In 1941, Khachaturian composed incidental music to the play Maskarad by Russian Romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841).
- Khachaturian created an orchestral suite from the incidental music in 1944.1
- Story: Lermontov’s Maskarad is a critical look at aristocratic life in 1830s St. Petersburg.2
Sources
- Svetlana Sarkisyan, “Khachaturian, Aram,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000014956.
- Vladimir Viktorovich Zhdanov, “Mikhail Lermontov,” Encyclopædia Britannica (October 11, 2019), accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Yuryevich-Lermontov.
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