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Hi all,

I'm studying Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (in the low key) to compete in my university's concerto competition, and I was surprised to find that the Glazunov/Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration is nowhere to be found online. The auditions are in December and the conductor wants to look at a copy of the score before then, can somebody point me to a copy in a Russian language database or something or other? Or point me in some direction?

Thank you,
Joey

Hrm.

My local University library seems to have the 2nd edition orchestrations of at least one or two of the songs, will have to check... - if those would be acceptable. Wikipedia claims 1880s (1882, they say, for the Trepak orchestration) but needs better sourcing; I can find a date of 1885 for the Trepak (orch by Glazunov, according to Wikipedia) (though HMB doesn't confirm who edited that orchestration; hopefully someone else does) ;

for the Sérénade I find a 1905-8? orchestral score I could interloan and try to scan in myself (indeed, I'll go put in an ILL request)... I could also see what I can do for Lullaby and Field Marshal.

If you wouldn't mind that would be amazing! The key doesn't necessarily matter at this moment, the conductor just wants to look at *an* orchestral score to see if it's doable. Thank you so much!

It's also possible that the interloan people will see that there's a voice/piano version online and turn down my request for the ill of the orchestral version precisely-because-of. Still, nothing ventured- time to

hrm. actually, the Rimsky version at Cornell is his revision of the voice/piano score, not his orchestration. The Rimsky, Glazunov and Lyapunov orchestrations are hard for me to access via interlibrary loan, I think (even the New York Public Library ones, I think, though I -may- be able to borrow those when I visit NYC... not sure.) Will look into it further. Sorry!

Thank you for help thus so far. I talked with my music library wizard and she said that orchestral scores are often not kept in the database/not offered for interlibrary loan for some reason or at least that’s how I interpreted what she said. There is a Kalmus printing of the orchestration but it costs $100 or so, which wouldn’t necesarily disqualify me but it would hinder my chances compared to a readily available orchestration.