Songs and Dances of Death (Russian: Песни и пляски смерти, Pesni i plyaski smerti) is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.
| Librettist | Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov |
| Date of composition | 1877 (1875-1877) |
| Type | Song cycle |
| Instruments |
Voice (Bass)
- or Baritone
Piano |
| Arrangements |
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Dmitri Shostakovitch: Orchestration of Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky
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| Autotranslations beta |
Modeste Moussorgski: Songs and Dances of Death Modest Petrovič Musorgskij: Songs and Dances of Death Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski: Songs and Dances of Death |