Masquerade Suite by Aram Khachaturian is a well-known orchestral suite composed in 1941. It was originally written as incidental music for Mikhail Lermontov's play Masquerade, which is a tragic drama about love, betrayal, and fate in Russian high society. About the Suite: Khachaturian later arranged the music into a five-movement orchestral suite, which has since become one of his most famous works. The five movements are: 1. Waltz – The most famous piece in the suite, a grand and melancholic wa