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Mazeppa| Opera by Tchaikovsky (libretto by composer and V P Burenin, based on Pushkin's Poltava), produced at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, on 15 February 1884. Mazeppa demandsto take Judge Kochubey's daughter Maria as his wife. Kochubey denounces Mazeppa as a separatist but the Tsar does not believe him. Mazeppa has Kochubey executed and Maria goes insane. |
| Symphonic poem by Liszt, composed in 1854 on Victor Hugo's poem and on the basis of one of the Grandes Etudes pour le piano of c. 1838 and their new version, the Etudes d'exécution transcendante of 1851, first performed at Weimar on 16 April 1854. |
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1819
Alden, David
Balfe, Michael William
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron
Dargomizhsky, Aleksandr Sergeievich
Gottschall, Rudolf von
| Jones, Richard
Kharitonov, Dimitri
Menken, Adah Isaacs
Pedrotti, Carlo
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| It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out. So Polly tucked herself up in front, Tom hung on behind in some mysterious manner, and Mazeppa proved that he fully merited his master's sincere if inelegant praise. What a fine picture one can form in one's mind, -- the naked, bronze-like figure of the old man with his little boy, riding like a Mazeppa on the white horse, thus leaving far behind him the host of his pursuers! |