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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		The Russian composer and critic, César Cui, was the son of a French officer who had remained in Russia after the retreat of Napoleon in 1812.
		Cui's first opera was "A Prisoner in the Caucasus", with a libretto based on Pushkin.
		Cui's chamber music includes various shorter pieces for violin and piano or cello and piano, notably two sets of miniatures for violin and piano, as well as three string quartets.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/cui.html (299 words)

	Cui English
		Cesar's father was in Napoleon's army, and was named after the famous Roman figure Julius Caesar.
		Cesar Cui was one of the most vocal members of the "new Russian school".
		esar Cui was a prolific composer and journalist.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /cui_english.html (294 words)

	Cesar Antonovich Cui, b
		Cui was trained as a military engineer, but after meeting Balakirev he became a propagandist for the new nationalist school of Russian composers.
		Despite his nationalist sentiments, Cui's ten operas show as much French character as they do Russian.
		Cui, who also composed many orchestral and chamber works, was, however, more important as a critic than a composer.
	www.russia-in-us.com /Music/Opera/cui.html (99 words)

	César Cui
		Cui's father, Antoine, came to Russia with the invading army of Napoleon, and settled in Lithuania where he met Julia Gucewicz.
		Cui was not the greatest composer, and is in fact the least known of the "Mighty Five." He wrote 14 operas, several hundred songs, some short orchestral and string quartet works, and piano music.
		Cui became blind before his death (like J.S. Bach), and passed away in 1918.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/C/CesarCui.html (187 words)

	César Cui
		Cui was an extremely prolific composer, and in 1869 had some public success with his opera William Ratcliff (based on the tragedy by Heinrich Heine).
		Cui's works are not so nationalistic as those of the other members of The Five - he was not so attached to Russian themes in his operas, and his style is more often compared to Robert Schumann than Mikhail Glinka or his Russian contemporaries.
		César Cui died on March 26, 1918 and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ce/Cesar_Cui.html (266 words)

	Science Fair Projects - César Cui
		Cui's more successful stage works during his lifetime were the one-act comic opera The Mandarin's Son (publically premiered in 1878), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus (1883), based on Pushkin, and the one-act Mademoiselle Fifi (1903), based on Maupassant.
		Cui's works are not so nationalistic as those of the other members of The Five; with the exception of Pushkin, his operas do not display a strong attraction to Russian sources, but he did write innumerable songs and choruses to texts by Russian composers.
		Cui died on March 13, 1918 and was buried next to his wife Mal'vina, who had died in 1899, at the Lutheran Semetary in Smolensk.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/C%E9sar_Cui (749 words)

	Cesar Cui biography - 8notes.com
		Cui's more successful stage works during his lifetime were the one-act comic opera The Mandarin's Son (publically premiered in 1878), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus (1883), based on Pushkin, and the one-act Mademoiselle Fifi (1903), based on Maupassant.
		Cui's works are not so nationalistic as those of the other members of The Five; with the exception of Pushkin, his operas do not display a strong attraction to Russian sources, but he did write innumerable songs and choruses to texts by Russian composers.
		Cui died on March 13, 1918 and was buried next to his wife Mal'vina, who had died in 1899, at the Lutheran Semetary in Smolensk.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/Cui.asp (647 words)

	Cui Homepage
		A photo of Cui's wife, Malvina (nee Bamberg)
		For those whose computer systems are able to play MIDI files, you may want to listen to my MIDI arrangement of the Introduction to Cui's opera William Ratcliff.
		A musical letter of Cui to Madame Mar'ia Kerzina, with text: "Greetings to the dear Kerzin home!"
	opera.stanford.edu /iu/russmus/cui/cui.html (166 words)

	Cesar Cui
		Cesar Franck- Piano Quintet Ludwig String Quartet Michael Levinas, Piano.
		Cesar Cui was not a musician by trade.
		There is a parody cartoon from some publication during his life with the caption in Latin: "Hail, Cesar Cui, we who are about to die salute you."...
	folks.mab-x-music.com /cesar-cui.html (689 words)

	Cucine tradizionali - Cesar
		Le cucine tradizionali Cesar comunicano calore e sicurezza, riescono a sorprendere per la funzionalità senza compromessi, mantenendo intatta l'eleganza misurata dello stile di un tempo.
		Le cucine tradizionali Cesar creano un ambiente familiare in cui vivere con serenità le proprie abitudini quotidiane, circondati da forme senza tempo, nel caldo abbraccio della riscoperta della semplicità di una volta.
		Naturalmente, tutte i modelli di cucine tradizionali Cesar sono personalizzabili in base alle esigenze di spazio e di gusto del singolo cliente.
	www.cesar.it /cucine_tradizionali.htm (348 words)

	The Mighty Five = Moguchaya Kuchka
		While Dargomyzhsky was composing The Stone Guest he became very ill. Dargomyzhsky ended up relying on a group of very talented young composers: Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, and Modest Mussorgsky along with Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
		A companionship was soon built around the friendship of the older composer Dargomyzhsky and the musical talent the group shared.
		The group of Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov soon became know as Moguchaya Kuchka, the mighty handful.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pbearse/The_Mighty_Five.htm (618 words)

	Cesar Cui Biography - famous Cesar Cui Classical collection and Cesar Cui Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		César Cui, one of the group of five nationalist Russian composers of the second half of the 19th century known as the Mighty Handful or the Five, was the son of a French officer who had remained in Russia after the retreat of Napoleon in 1812.
		Piano Music In his piano music Cui again shows his gifts as a miniaturist, exhibited in a large number of attractive short pieces.
		His songs, of course, do treat Russian texts and include settings of Pushkin, Nekrasov and A.K. Tolstoy, while his choral music is generally on a more ambitious scale.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/242.htm (0 words)

	Popular Music : Cesar Cui (Site not responding. Last check: )
		by: Pavel Lisitsian, Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomizhsky, Mikhail Glinka, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
		by: Leonid Gorokhov, Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Felix Blumenfeld, Cesar Cui, Karl Yul'yevich Davidov, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, Alexander Glazunov, Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov
		by: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Cesar Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Sergei Larin, Eleonora Bekova, Alexander Pushkin
	www.mrgoodbeer.com /amazon/apf.cgi?mode=music&search_type=ArtistSearch&input_string=Cesar+Cui&templates=2&locale=us (202 words)

	CÉSAR ANTONOVICH CUI by Bhagwan N. Thadani (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He joined Balakirev's circle of musicians and was one of the members of the 5 composers regarded as the "Mogoochaya Koochka" or the "Mighty Handful" consisiting of Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
		Being fluently bilingual in French and Russian, Cui was a welcome guest in France, spending quite some time with the the Comte and Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau in Argenteau.
		But Cui was very busy throughout his long life, composing 6 operas, chamber music, orchestral suites, a violin sonata, more than 250 songs, all very melodious compositions which one can easily and unjustly dismiss with faint praise as being "charming".
	www.musicweb.uk.net /cui (518 words)

	Cesar Antonovich Cui, b (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cui was trained as a military engineer, but after meeting Balakirev he became a propagandist for the new nationalist school of Russian composers.
		Despite his nationalist sentiments, Cui's ten operas show as much French character as they do Russian.
		Cui, who also composed many orchestral and chamber works, was, however, more important as a critic than a composer.
	russia-in-us.com /Music/Opera/cui.html (99 words)

	Cui sheet music
		Cesar Cui, one of the group of five nationalist Russian composers of the second half of the 19th century known as the Mighty Handful or the Five, was the son of a French officer who had remained in
		This did not prevent Cui from ambitious activity as a composer and an important career as a critic, often harsh and intolerant in his judgments.
		Cui is best known for his colorful short piano pieces and vocal romances.
	everynote.intissite.com /composer_cui.html (237 words)

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