César Cui
Russian composer and army officer
César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, romanized: Tsezar Antonovich Kyui; IPA: [ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi]; French: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui; 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1835 – 26 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers gathered by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of engineer-general (equivalent to full general), taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject.
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Works
- The Mandarin's Son 1859
- Prisoner of the Caucasus 1874
- The Fair at Sorochyntsi 1874
- 25 Poems by Pushkin, op. 57
- 3 Valses, op. 31
- 5 Mélodies, op. 54
- 7 Poems by Pushkin and Lermontov, op. 33
- 7 Romances, op. 49
- Angelo
- Cinq Morceaux, op. 52
- Deux Bluettes, op. 29
- Deux Polonaises, op. 30
- Deux morceaux, op. 36
- Douze Miniatures, op. 20
- Feast in Time of Plague
- Ivan the Fool
- Kaleidoscope, op. 50
- Le flibustier
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Mateo Falcone
- Mlada
- Puss in Boots
- Quatre Morceaux, op. 60
- Quatre morceaux, op. 22
- Six Miniatures, op. 39
- Suite Concertante for Violin and Orchestra, op. 25
- Suite no. 2 in E major, op. 38
- Suite, op. 21
- Suite, op. 43 "In modo populari"
- The Captain's Daughter
- The Saracen
- The Snow Bogatyr
- Three Scherzos, op. 82
- Trois Impromptus, op. 35
- Trois Morceaux op. 8
- Trois Mouvements de valse, op. 41
- Twenty-Five Preludes, op. 64
- Violin Sonata in D major, op. 84
- William Ratcliff
- Yedi's Aria
- À Argenteau, op. 40
- Отзвуки войны, op. 66
Box sets & recent recordings
- Cui: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 — César Cui, Marco Rapetti (2025) box set · 38 tracks Spotify
- Cui: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 — César Cui, Paul Rickard-Ford (2026) Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.