- Mussorgsky wrote this piece for piano in Moscow in the 1880s. It was originally entitled Une larme (A Tear).1
- The dreamy mood of this little piano piece is highlighted by its subtitle/description, Quasi fantasia.2
Sources
- Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition and Other Works for Piano, ed. Pavel Lamm (New York: Dover: 1990) 174.
Cut IDs
18977