SOME MUSICAL BORROWINGS IN RUSSIAN MUSIC, 1850-1918
(Excluding transcriptions, arrangements, etc.)
Arensky
- A Dream on the Volga (play originally used by Tchaikovsky in the opera "Voyevoda")
- Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Balakirev
- Cantata in memory of Glinka
- Quotation from "Ruslan and Ludmilla" near the end
- Symphony No. 1
- Folk song in last movement
- Symphony No. 2
- Folk song in 2nd movement
Cesar Cui
- William Ratcliff
- Scottish folk-song in Scene II
- Angelo
- His "Mystic Chorus", op. 6, used in Act II
- Conjuring passage from his "Mlada" (unpublished at the time)
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Selection from Marschner's "Soldatenliederbuch" (incorporating the Kuchkist's "Tati-tati" ostinato in the last statement of the refrain)
- Selection from Tiersot's songs from the region of Metz
- Quotation from "Die Wacht am Rhein"
Rimsky-Korsakov
- Variations on a theme of Glinka (oboe and band)
- May Night
- Several folk songs from Rubets' collection
- Snowmaiden
- Passage from Cui's "Mlada" used for the character of Mizgir
- Some folk songs paralleling Tchaikovsky's
- Mlada
- Passage from Cui's "Mlada" used as leitmotif for Mlada (coincidence?)
- The Tsar's Bride
- "Slava"
- Ivan IV's theme from "Vera Sheloga"/"Pskovityanka"
- The Golden Cockerel
- Dance tune in Act II from Musorgsky
Tchaikovsky
- The Voyevoda (opera, see Arensky above)
- Snowmaiden (incidental music)
- Folk tunes (required by the play)
- Overture 1812
- Orthodox hymn "Save, O Lord, Thy People"
- French and tsarist national anthems (latter is replaced by "Slavs'ja" from the end of "Ivan Susanin" in Soviet version)
- Folk song
- Symphony no. 2
- Symphony no. 4
- Russian folk song in last movement
- Mazepa
- Tsarist national anthem in "Battle of Poltava"