Question
This song cycle consists of four monologues by a melancholy denizen of St. Petersburg, who contemplates the darkness in his cramped apartment in the song “Within Four Walls.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this song cycle, which is, like its composer’s Songs and Dances of Death, based on the poems of Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov.
ANSWER: Sunless [or Without Sun; or Bez Solntsa]
[10e] Sunless and Songs and Dances of Death are two song cycles by this Russian composer of the suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
ANSWER: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
[10m] Mussorgsky also composed a setting of this literary character’s “Song of the Flea.” This character names four pieces based on a play by Nikolaus Lenau, the first of which is subtitled “Dance at the Village Inn.”
ANSWER: Mephistopheles
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