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Something wrong?Russian composer who aimed to break Western musical rules in order to build something purely Russian - and succeeded in ways his contemporaries often didn't live to see, because for decades his scores circulated mostly as rewrites by other hands.
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, I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades.
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SpotifyAlbums 24
PDPictures at an Exhibition / A Night on the Bare Mountain / Khovanshchina DancesPDPictures at an Exhibition / Songs and Dances of Death
MTMussorgsky: Pictures At an Exhibition / Tchaikovsky: Piano TrioPKPictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain / Introduction to KhovanshchinaMIMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Hopak / On the Southern Shore of the Crimea / Une larme / Balakirev: IslameyPRPictures at an Exhibition / Francesca da RiminiMEMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Scriabin: Poem of EcstasyMSMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Stravinsky: The Firebird SuiteMSMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Khudolei: Boris Godunov SuiteMOMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Ginastera: Sonata no. 1, op. 22PSPictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain / Valses nobles et sentimentales
MCModest Mussorgsky: 150th Anniversary CelebrationMPMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Stravinsky: Three Dances From PetrouchkaMVMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole / La ValseAbout this person
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born 21 March 1839 and became one of "The Five," a group driving Russian music toward its own identity during the Romantic period. He drew from Russian history and folklore for works like the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral Night on Bald Mountain, and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. He died 28 March 1881, and for many years his pieces were known mainly in versions revised or completed by others. Posthumously, his original scores have come into their own, and a complete academic edition is now being published in Moscow - six volumes issued as of 2026, including the full score of Boris Godunov prepared by Levashev, Teterina, and Berchenko.
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