Danse Des Ghazies Arensky Analysis

Danse des Ghazies from Egyptian Nights is the ninth movement from the Ballet Suite, Op. 50a (Nuits d'Egypte), written by Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906). While a famous Russian composer of Romantic music, he was also a pianist and a music professor. Arensky composed the ballet Egyptian Nights in 1900 and it was first published for piano; however, the score of the entire ballet was never published. Aleksandr Orlov recorded the overture of the ballet with the Great Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR by 1946 and in 1979, Boris Demchenko and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR recorded the entire suite.