Nikolay Zubov: “Mournful Lyre“, Waltz in memory of Pushkin

The score is here вальсы/вальсы-николая-зубова/ looks ugly because of the kyrillic letters in the URL. The author of the play (written for the centenary of the great poet Pushkin) created beautiful music, stylized in the manner of an ancient waltz of Pushkin’s times (early 19th century). It is interesting that the now forgotten Russian composer N.V. Zubov was an amateur pianist with phenomenal talent. Nikolai Vladimirovich played the piano by ear and composed music without knowing musical notation. The scores of his works were obviously written down by someone else. The angel (on the cover, see the URL) points with his finger at the portrait of Alexander Sergeevich; it seems that this is a kind of allusion to the stunning poem “The Prophet“. The title of the play (Mournful Lyre) also speaks of the great destiny of the p