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MODEST PETROVICH MUSSORGSKY
(1839-1881)
Russian composer, at first army officer,
later a civil servant but studied
briefly as a young man with Balakirev. Both were members of THE MIGHTY
HANDFUL, the
group of five nationalist composers; expressed sympathy with the people and
showed it in
various works including his masterpiece the opera BORIS GODUNOV.
Evolved, partly from speech-inflection, a highly individual musical idiom
misunderstood by
many contemporaries - Rimsky-Korsakov 'correcting' (misleadingly) much of his work
after his death and fathering on him a piece called NIGHT ON THE BARE MOUNTAIN, his
other works include unfinished operas THE KHOVANSKY AFFAIR, SOROCHINTS FAIR, and
THE
MARRIAGE, PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION for piano (orchestrated by others); many
songs
including SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH.
Died after alcoholic epileptic fits.
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