At 2:45 pm, on February 10, 1837, Alexander Pushkin died of wounds sustained in a duel two days earlier, claiming the life of the poet widely considered the greatest in all of Russian Literature, and the founder of the same in the modern era. On Tuesday's Classical Music with Foley Schuler, we'll feature some of the many musical works to which Pushkin would posthumously give birth. Represented will be such masterworks as Russlan and Ludmilla, The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Tales of the Tsar Saltan, and Boris Godunov—in musical interpretations by Glinka, Gliere, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—weekday afternoons from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
