Songs and Dances of Death
Songs and Dances of Death ( , "Pesni i plyaski smerti" ) is a song cycle for voice ( usually bass or bass-baritone ) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , written in the mid-1870s , to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov , a relative of the composer . 
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