March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky; Hermann Finck (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

 [Previous postings for March 21st may be found here: J. S. Bach [sic] (2019) and Modest Mussorgsky (2020)]

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Modest Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer.

 

Exhibitionist

High among recital fixtures

You will find Mussorgsky’s Pictures.

Pianists play this famous suite

If their hands are strong and fleet.

Every movement, like a screen,

Shows a new artistic scene,

All connected by an odd

And ambling sort of promenade, 

Then a final big peroration

And, they hope, a grand ovation.

Pianists work to earn their salary

With Mussorgsky’s picture gallery!

 

 

 

 

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Hermann Finck (21 March 1527 – 28 December 1558) was a German composer and theorist. He was the great-nephew of the still-performed Heinrich Finck.

 

 

Not What You Finck 

If you’re like me, you seldom think

About composer Hermann Finck.

In choral circles now and then we

Think about his uncle Henry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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