Song 188 (César Antonovich Cui--"Orientale")

Continuing my themed workweek of "The Five" I decided to choose the one member that I know the least about: Cesar Cui. He seemed to be more of a down-to-earth member of the five; not as radical. This could be because his father was a member of Napoleon's army that stayed in Russia and his mother was Lithuanian. Another part of his career was that he was a prolific music critic as well.

Here is a recording of the piece played by Toscha Seidel on YouTube.

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