Mussorgsky is one of the "Russian Fives" born in 1839 and is a composer classified as a nationalist. Representative works include the orchestral music "Night on Bald Mountain" and the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition", which are familiar to all classical music fans. He studied under Balakirev at a young age and studied German music such as Beethoven, but after that, he began to compose freely by himself, and started composing realistic songs when he was 26 years old. This "Desire -Wish" is a song written in 1866 with the lyrics of Heine's poem Ich wollt, meine Schmerzen ergössen. By the way, this poem is sung by many composers, including Mendelssohn and Tykovsky. The content of the song is a song that puts one's feelings on the person who cares about it, conveys it to the other person's heart, and wishes that the feelings to be fulfilled. A mysterious and beautiful, hidden masterpiece of Mussorgsky. In the arrangement of Lento & Vivace, the theme is repeated and the piano accompaniment of the original song is also changed. How about playing this love song with all your heart? * The original song is in B minor, but it is easy to play and arranged in A minor.
