7 Songs after Pushkin, Op.52 (Medtner, Nikolay)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 songs
Composition Year	1928-02
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; Russian language

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Scores

Complete score of all pieces
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Editor	Aleksandr Goldenweiser (1875–1961)
Language	Russian / German
Publisher. Info.	N. Metner: Sobranie Sochinenii, Tom VI: Sochineniia dlia golosa i fortepiano Moscow: Muzgiz, 1961. Plate M. 29308 Г. URTEXT EDITION This "urtext" or "scholarly" (scientific) edition is in the public domain because it was published at least 25 years ago for most of the EU (20 years ago in Italy, 30 years ago in Poland) over 25 years ago for the former USSR. Such editions are also public domain in Canada because they fail to meet the minimum 'threshold of originality' to qualify for copyright as an 'adaptation'. They may not be public domain elsewhere. More information about this can be found here. Please obey the copyright laws of your country. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.
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General Information

Work Title	7 Songs after Pushkin
Alternative. Title	Sieben Lieder
Composer	Medtner, Nikolay
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.52
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	INM 51
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 songs: The Window (Окно) [Das Fenster] The Ravens (Ворон) [Der Rabe] Elegy (Элегия) [Elegie] Omens (Приметы) [Zeichen] Spanish Romance (Испанский романс) [Spanische Romanze] Serenade (Серенада) The Captive (Узник) [Der Gefangene]
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1928-02
First Publication.	1930
Librettist	Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), after Walter Scott (1771-1832)'s Twa Corbies (or traditional?) (No.2)
Language	Russian
Dedication	see below 1, 4. Tatyana Makushina (1895-?)* 2. Lawrance Collingwood (1887-1982) 3. Emil Medtner (1872-1936) 5. Alfred Swan (1890-1970) 6. Nina Koshetz (1891-1965) 7. Alfred LaLiberté (1882-1952)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, piano

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Ms. Makushina recorded several songs of Medtner with the composer at the piano for HMV several years later in London (along with Schwarzkopf and Slobodskaya.) Quite a few of these recordings have remained, or recently again become, available.

The Delphi edition of Pushkin’s works (which is probably not complete) contains no match for no.2, but their edition of Walter Scott’s works does contain a version of the text (where it is called The Twa Corbies, and it is suggested that this ballad predates Scott. Thanks to Martyn’s book for noting the alternate title. Additional information: No.2 appears even earlier - in a version by Ravenscroft a hundred years before Walter Scott was born- but Pushkin's translated version adds a twist at the end lacking in some other better-known versions, that suggests that the knight has died because of marital betrayal/treachery, and the ravens are about to tell each other the twisty tale as the song ends.

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