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César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) (January 6, 1835 (Old Style) - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian brand of music.  He held copious avocations in music: composition and journalism, and was the composer of 15 operas, orchestral music, choral music (mostly secular, some sacred), chamber music, piano music and hundreds of art songs.  
César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian brand of music.  He held copious avocations in music: composition and journalism, and was the composer of 15 operas, orchestral music, choral music (mostly secular, some sacred), chamber music, piano music and hundreds of art songs.  


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==List of choral works==
==List of choral works==


==Sacred Choral==
===Sacred Choral===
*Ave Maria, Op. 34, for 1-2 women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886)  
*Ave Maria, Op. 34, for 1-2 women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886)  
*Three Psalms, op. 80, for mixed voices (1910)  
*Three Psalms, op. 80, for mixed voices (1910)  
*Song of the Most Holy Theotokos [Песнь Пресвятыя Богородицы = Pesn' presvjatyja bogorodicy] (i.e. the Russian Orthodox Magnificat), op. 93, for soprano solo and mixed voices (1914)  
*Song of the Most Holy Theotokos [Песнь Пресвятыя Богородицы = Pesn' presvjatyja bogorodicy] (i.e. the Russian Orthodox Magnificat), op. 93, for soprano solo and mixed voices (1914)  


==Secular Choral and Part-Songs==
===Secular Choral and Part-Songs===
*Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin, Op. 4, for mixed voices with orchestra (1860)  
*Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin, Op. 4, for mixed voices with orchestra (1860)  
*Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus) [Мистический хор = Mističeskij khor], Op. 6, for women's voices and orchestra or piano, text from Dante's Purgatorio (1871)  
*Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus) [Мистический хор = Mističeskij khor], Op. 6, for women's voices and orchestra or piano, text from Dante's Purgatorio (1871)  
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*They're Marching ["Идут" = "Idut"], for men's voices (1914)  
*They're Marching ["Идут" = "Idut"], for men's voices (1914)  


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==Chief publishers during the composer's lifetime==
*Russia
**Bessel
**Jurgenson
**Belaieff
*France
**Leduc.


==External links==
==External links==
*[[wikipedia:List of compositions by César Cui|Wikipedia list]] of Cui's works, choral and otherwise


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Wikipedia list of Cui's works, choral and otherwise:
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Life

Born: 6 January 1835 (Old Style)

Died: 13 March 1918

Biography

César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian brand of music. He held copious avocations in music: composition and journalism, and was the composer of 15 operas, orchestral music, choral music (mostly secular, some sacred), chamber music, piano music and hundreds of art songs.

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List of choral works

Sacred Choral

  • Ave Maria, Op. 34, for 1-2 women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886)
  • Three Psalms, op. 80, for mixed voices (1910)
  • Song of the Most Holy Theotokos [Песнь Пресвятыя Богородицы = Pesn' presvjatyja bogorodicy] (i.e. the Russian Orthodox Magnificat), op. 93, for soprano solo and mixed voices (1914)

Secular Choral and Part-Songs

  • Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin, Op. 4, for mixed voices with orchestra (1860)
  • Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus) [Мистический хор = Mističeskij khor], Op. 6, for women's voices and orchestra or piano, text from Dante's Purgatorio (1871)
  • Seven Choruses, Op. 28, for mixed voices (1885)
  • Les oiseaux d'Argenteau," for children's voices (1887)
  • Five Choruses, Op. 46, for mixed voices (1893)
  • Six Choruses, Op. 53, for mixed voices (1895)
  • Seven Little Duet-Choruses, Op. 101, for children's or women's voices, (1899) (not published)
  • Zwei Lieder, Op. 58, for men's voices (1901)
  • Seven Vocal Quartets, Op. 59, for mixed voices (1901)
  • Six Choruses, Op. 63, for mixed voices (1903)
  • Seven Little Choruses on texts by Belousov, Op. 77 (1908)
  • Thirteen Choruses, Op. 85, for women's and children's voices with piano (1911)
  • Nine Vocal Quartets for men's voices, Op. 88 (1911-1912).
  • March of the Russian Falcons [Марш русских соколов = Marsh russkikh sokolov, for mixed voices with piano (1912)
  • Cantata in Commemoration of the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reign of the House of the Romanovs, 1613-1913, Op. 89, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1913)
  • Your Poetic Art [Твой стих = Tvoj stikh], Cantata in Memory of M.Yu. Lermontov, Op. 96, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1914)
  • They're Marching ["Идут" = "Idut"], for men's voices (1914)


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External links

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