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 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at the Exhibition' is arguably the epitome of all programmatic piano music in 19th Century.
It evinces Mussorgsky's fertile imaginations and is replete with the strikingly original and somewhat exotic melodies, in such a way that shows an affinity with Russian folksongs.
It is a fact that Mussorgsky did not adhere to the principles of the traditional theory, but strived to relate his music to the Russian culture and life.
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 Encyclopedia: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский) (March 21, 1839 –; March 28, 1881; sometimes spelt Modeste Moussorgsky), was an innovative Russian composer famed for his colourful, exotic, and lush orchestral pieces dedicated to various subjects of medieval Russian history.
Mussorgsky's family descended from the first Russian ruler, Rurik, through the sovereign princes of Smolensk.
Modest was prepared by his parents for the military career, but under the influence of Mily Balakirev quit the service and joined The Five, a group of composers dedicated to promoting a distinctly Russian kind of music.
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Modest Moussorgsky - Karadar Dictionary entry with life, related composers, MIDI audio samples, catalogue of works, list of operas with phonetically spelled libretto of Boris Godunov, and portraits and other illustrations.
Modest Mussorgsky - MIDI files (freely downloadable) of "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on a bald Montain"; also WMA / MP3 files.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of operas, piano works, and vocal music, and Naxos discography.
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 Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839 - 1881)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mussorgsky was one of the five Russian nationalist composers, roughly grouped under the influence of the unreliable Balakirev.
Initially an army officer and later, intermittently, a civil servant, Mussorgsky left much unfinished at his death in 1881, nevertheless his influence on composers such as Janácek was considerable, not least in the association he found between speech intonations and rhythms and melody.
Mussorgsky's 1874 suite Pictures at an Exhibition, a tribute to the versatile artist Hartman, has proved the most popular of all the composer's works, both in its original version for piano and in colourful orchestral versions, of which that by Maurice Ravel has proved the most generally acceptable.
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 Modest Mussorgsky
Many of Mussorgsky's works were unfinished, and their editing and posthumous publication were mainly carried out by Rimsky-Korsakov, who to a greater or lesser degree 'corrected' what Mussorgsky had composed.
It was only many years later that, with a return to the composer's original drafts, the true nature of his rough art could be properly understood, for Mussorgsky shared with some of the painters of his day a disdain for formal beauty, technical polish and other manifestations of 'art for art's sake'.
His desire was to relate his art as closely as possible to life, especially that of the Russian masses, to nourish it on events and to employ it as a means for communicating human experience.
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Mussorgsky's family descended from the first Russian ruler, (Click link for more info and facts about Rurik) Rurik, through the sovereign princes of (A city in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in World War II) Smolensk.
During his lifetime, Mussorgsky was but little known, lived in dismal poverty and shared his lodging with the fellow composer (Click link for more info and facts about Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
One of Mussorgsky's wildest and most barbaric pieces (as the contemporary critics put it) is the orchestral work (Click link for more info and facts about St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain) St.
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 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Biography / Biography of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Biography Biography
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) is generally acclaimed the finest of the group of Russian composers known as the Mighty Five.
Without Modest Mussorgsky the notion of the Russian 19th century as one of musical realism would be unsupportable.
Mussorgsky was born on March 9, 1839, in the village of Karevo in the Pskov district.
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Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky  · iweb · cached · Explanation of the interaction between the music and the Hartman paintings.
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Modest Moussorgsky  · cached · Karadar Dictionary entry with life, related composers, MIDI audio samples, catalogue of works, list of operas with phonetically spelled libretto of Boris Godunov, and portraits and other illustrations.
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Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), one of the most original and influential of the 19th-century Russian nationalist composers.
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At the age of 19, an ardent idealist, Mussorgsky resigned his commission for a life of "meaningful endeavor"--music.
Mussorgsky was already writing Khovanshchina, another historical opera, and soon started the lighthearted Fair at Sorochinsk.
Mussorgsky's music is distinctly Russian, yet it rarely relies directly on folk-song quotation.
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born in 1839 in Karevo.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: The Nursery (Kinderstube) and Songs and Dances of Death - Low Voice Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, edited by Hans-Andre Stamm (1958-).
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 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Mussorgsky English Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky M ussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881) is a Russian composer, and considered as one of the most original and influential of the 19th-century Russian nationalist composers.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky died on March 28, 1881 and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mussorgsky's mother gave him piano lessons, and at nine he played a Field concerto before an audience in his parents' house.
On his return to St. Petersburg in the autumn Mussorgsky, like the other members of the Balakirev-Stasov circle (ironically dubbed the 'Mighty Handful'),; became interested in Dargomizhsky's experiments in operatic naturalism.
Early in 1869 Mussorgsky reentered government service and, in more settled conditions, was able to complete the original version of the opera Boris Godunov.
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Mussorgsky was a member (along with Balakirev, Borodin, Cui and Rimsky-Korsakov) of the group of Russian nationalist composers known as The Mighty Handful (or The Five).
Poster for an all Mussorgsky concert in 1902 presented by Marie Olenina-d'Alheim, the Russian-French singer
Note: This picture gallery page includes drawings, paintings, photos and images of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, his music, activities, friends and family, and the various places where the composer lived and wrote.
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When he was 18 years old he met Russian nationalist composer Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, through whom Mussorgsky joined the circle of Russian nationalist composers now known as The Five.
His bold, unorthodox harmonies, based on the scales of Russian folk music, influenced later non-Russian composers.
Mussorgsky's other works include the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition (1874, orchestrated in 1922 by French composer Maurice Ravel).
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: C 2nd Promenade
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: J 6 Samuel Goldenberg
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: L 7 Limoges.
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Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of Modest Mussorgsky, including biographies, discographies, analyses of compositions, or bibliographies.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born in 1839, in the Karevo, district of Pskov and died in 1881 in St. Petersburg.
A member of Moguchaya Kuchka (The Five), Mussorgsky was a competent pianist and a fiercely nationalist composer.
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 AllRefer.com - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Modest Mussorgsky
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Mussorgsky, Modest (Petrovich) (b Karevo, Pskov, 1839; d St Petersburg, 1881).
Over the next few years Mussorgsky worked on 2 operas, but his heavy drinking, a habit acquired at cadet school, sapped his capacity for concentrated work.
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Modest Mussorgsky - MIDI files (freely downloadable) of "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on the Bare Mountain"; also WMA / MP3 files.
That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
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 Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
His name is also transliterated as Mussorgsky and Musorgsky.
He was one of the first to promote a national Russian style.
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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On this site, Reimar Walthert offers an extended essay (in German) on Mussorgsky's most famous work, Pictures at an Exhibition.
In addition to an analysis of the work and a discussion of its genesis, the site offers a thorough biography, sound files, and numerous images (including some of the paintings of Viktor Hartmann that inspired the work).
This page offers the entire text of Simon David Perry's master's thesis, "Mussorgsky's Orthography: An Approach to Tonal Structures in his Music." In the thesis, Perry employs "orthographic" analytical techniques, rather than more traditional set-theoretic or voice-leading approaches, as a means of exploring the composer's nontraditional pitch structures.
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Mussorgsky - Brief biography, copy of Repin painting, and music samples [need QuickTime plug-in].
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