The Nursery (song cycle)

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Musorgsky in 1870
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Musorgsky in 1870

The Nursery (Russian: Детская, Detskaya, literally Children's [Room]) is a song cycle by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composed between 1868 and 1872, to his own lyrics.

[edit] Song Titles

The individual song titles and dates of composition are as follows:

  1. «С няней» With Nanny (1868)
  2. «В углу» In the Corner (1870)
  3. «Жук» The Beetle (1870)
  4. «С куклой» With the Doll (1870)
  5. «На сон грядущий» Going to Sleep (1870)
  6. «Поехал на палочке» The Hobby-Horse (1872)
  7. «Кот Матрос» Matros the Cat (1872)