Mosolov - Turkmenian Nights No. 1

First piece from the Turkmenian Nights suite composed around 1928.

Alexander Mosolov (1900-1973) was a part of the Soviet Avant-Garde prominent in the 1920s. He was oppressed by the RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) for writing inaccessible and highly pessimistic music; i.e., not conforming to Soviet Realism. By 1929 his compositions were banned and in 1936 he moved to Central Asia to collect folk music. From then until his death, Mosolov abandoned his earlier compositional style and wrote tame often folk-inspired works.

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[sawunit]

did anyone else notice around 1:16 the kind of eerie background sound produced by the pedaling? It almost sounds like there is some sort of synth noise at that point for me

[LongDriveChamp03]

It almost seems like a parody on Liszt's Un Sospiro Etude.

[Steinway12345]

the ostainatos remind me of a less- insistent stravinsky

[Lukecash12]

You know i get the strangest little hunch that he was a pessimist. I like his piece, and that he weighs on a certain rhythmic pattern for the duration most times.

[morvensky]

that was intense