Mood Sketches Number 5

Mood Sketches Number 5

by Lol Taylor

Composed by: Vladimir Rebikov

Striving after an unobtainable ideal

Rebikov was born in Krasnorjarsk, Siberia, in 1866 and died in the Crimea in 1920.

He experimented with "musical psychological sketches", that is, emotive music.

This piece brings out the endless restlessness of striving until we give up exhausted.

I bought the music copy in Hull in 1941 from a second-hand stall between the air-raids. It contains eleven Mood Sketches.