Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839- 1881) Pictures at an
Exhibition 2. The Old Castle 3. The Tuilleries 5. Ballet of the
Chickens in their Shells 6. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 7.
Limoges: The Market Place 8. Catacombae -Cum mortuis in lingua
mortua 9. The Hut on Fowl's legs 10. The Great Gate of Kiev
Night on the Bare Mountain Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833
-1887) Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) In the Steppes of
Central Asia The later nineteenth century was the great age
ofnationalism in Russia, a period in which the Russian language
became a fitvehicle for the work of great novelists and poets
and in which music soughtdevelopment through recourse to Russian
traditions, sacred and secular. Therewas a curious ambivalence,
apparent in music as elsewhere in the cultural andpolitical life
of the country. On the one hand Western Europe seemed to offer
amodel to follow, the course embraced by Anton Rubinstein and
composers of a morecosmopolitan turn of mind: on the other hand
Russia was seen as the s