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	Music of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glinka and the composers who made up The Mighty Handful after him (Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin and César Cui) were often influenced by Russian folk music and tales.
		The Mighty Handful and the Russian Music Society were rivals, with the former embracing a Russian national identity and the latter musically conservative.
		Among the Mighty Handful's most notable compositions were the operas The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), Sadko, Boris Godunov, Prince Igor and Khovanshchina, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade.
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	The Mighty Handful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original Russian name for this group is "Могучая кучка" [Mogučaja kučka], which means roughly "mighty handful," the second word of the moniker constituting a diminutive of the word for "heap" or "pile." The derivative term "kuchkist" soon came to be applied as well.
		Before them, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but the Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music, with Stasov as their artistic advisor, so to speak.
		As a group they began to fall apart during the 1870s, no doubt partially due to the fact that Balakirev withdrew from musical life early in the decade for a period of time.
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	Symphonic Marxism: Sovietizing Pre-Revolutionary Russian Music Under Stalin
		It is the former motive that eventually gains the upper hand in the death scene, hinting at redemption from sin, and so making the tsar's demise into a wider representation of the tragedy of human existence.
		Throughout he actually develops a handful of characteristic rhythmic and harmonic turns, and brings the singer's line into a close relationship with the accompaniment by using changes in piano texture to underline changes of vocal intonation and changing images in the text.
		Hand in hand with this goes the contemporaneous creation of organizations like the Russian Musical Society, making music more accessible by putting on public concerts.
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		The Mighty Handful was: Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Alexander Borodin (1833-87), Cesar Cui (1835-1918), Modest Musorgsky (1839-81), and Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908).
		Modest Musorgsky was considered the greatest of the Mighty Handful, and earned a painful living as a clerk in the civil service.
		With the Mighty Handful, Russia is actually just one example of Nationalism, a movement in the later part of the 1800ís where composers of many European nations tried to make their music more expressive of its own country and challenge the widespread dominance of German music.
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	The Mighty Handful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mighty Handful also known as The Five in English-speaking countries was a loose of Russian classical composers brought together under the leadership of Mily Balakirev with the aim of producing a Russian music rather than imitating older European
		The label Mightly Handful ('moguchaya kuchka ' in Russian) was first applied to group in 1867 by the critic Vladimir The alternate name The Five is not and was never intended be a literal translation of this term.
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	the mighty handful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mighty Handful, also known as The Five in English-speaking countries, was a loose collection of Russian classical composers brought together under the leadership of Mily Balakirev with the aim of producing a specifically Russian music rather than imitating older European music.
		The label Mightly Handful ('moguchaya kuchka' in Russian) was first applied to the group in 1867 by the critic Vladimir Stasov.
		The alternate name The Five is not and was never intended to be a literal translation of this term.
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	Alexander Borodin - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a Georgian Prince, Luka Gedevanishvili, who had him registered instead as the son of one of his serfs.
		As a result, he was not as prolific a composer as many of his contemporaries, but he did write the popular symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia, two string quartets and a handful of songs and piano pieces.
		He also started work on a third symphony, but that, also, was incomplete at his death (two movements of it were later completed by Glazunov).
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	Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphony No.3 in C major, Op.32
		So when a member of the "Mighty Handful" set out to write a symphony, he was making a very public point about his technical skill and his ability to match western composers on their own terms.
		Mussorgsky’s reaction to Rimsky’s "sell-out" was less moderate: "The ‘Mighty Handful’ has hatched into a horde of soulless traitors!" Only in 1875, after the first Moscow performance, did the new symphony receive an enthusiastic review.
		Written in a warm E major, the Andante follows the formal pattern pioneered by Glinka in his "Kamarinskaya", one of the musical touchstones of the "Mighty Handful".
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	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		The Mighty Handful, or Mighty Five (Moguchaya kuchka), as they are sometimes dubbed, were a group of 19th-century Russians who strove to create a clearly Russian sound in the concert hall and the opera house.
		Mavra was a distinctly Russian-themed work in which Stravinsky specifically chose to thumb his nose at the Mighty Handful and their penchant for writing operas based on whimsical Russian folk and fairy tales filled with magic and fanciful folderol.
		It is scored for only a handful of strings (a string quintet), but includes an extra helping of woodwinds and brass (22 woodwinds and brass plus timpani).
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	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: Romantic: Moguchaya Kuchka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mighty Five: Moguchaya Kuchka · cached · Essay tracing their origins with insights into their historical millieu.
		Nationalism in Music: The Mighty Handful · cached · Examination the influence of Russian patriotism on the works of the group and its individual members.
		The Mighty Handful Versus the Rest of the World · cached · Fiction by Ron Butlin humorously portrays the nationalism and struggle for acceptance by the group and its members.
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	Russian operas composers free music downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This was started by Glinka with the supposedly historical opera A Life for the Tsar, followed by Ruslan and Lyudmila, based on Pushkin and exploring more exotic, oriental elements, as Russian composers were to continue to do.
		Three, at least, of the five nationalist composers who made up what became known as the Mighty Handful, made notable contributions to Russian opera.
		The FIVE, or the Mighty Five, is the label given to a group of Russian composers that formed during the 1860s.
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	The Mighty Handful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mighty Handful, also known as The Five in English-speaking countries, was a loosecollection of Russian classical composers brought together under the leadership of Mily Balakirev with the aim of producing a specifically Russian musicrather than imitating older European music.
		Before them, Mikhail Glinka had gone some waytowards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented thefirst concentrated attempt to develop such a music.
		The label Mightly Handful ('moguchaya kuchka' in Russian) was first applied to the group in1867 by the critic Vladimir Stasov.
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	Sweeping out the cobwebs by Patrick J. Smith
		The Handful was opposed to the Germanizing influence of Anton Rubinstein and his cohort.
		The belief that the Handful was opposed to the reigning powers of the day, or that Musorgsky’s operas glorified the masses, fit the Communist ideology.
		In fact, there was never a dichotomy of the Handful and the Germanizers, but several cliques of varying power and influence, which changed with the years and with circumstances in Russia.
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	Ron Butlin THE MIGHTY HANDFUL VERSUS THE REST OF THE WORLD
		Throughout the winter season The Mighty Handful were forced to play their five-a-side home games in a local park where, from October onwards, the snow fell thickly, and daily.
		But they were The Mighty Handful: five Nationalist composers determined to put Russia on the map.
		That was to be the last time The Mighty Handful ever played together as a team.
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	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		The national characteristics of Russian music might seem to be a given, but they were hardly so at the time these composers came to the fore in the second half of the 19th century.
		It was Stassov who dubbed the group the "Mighty Handful" in an 1867 review.
		Indeed, there was something "mighty" about the rapid pace of their growth and development.
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		Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was the most accomplished of a group of musicians that championed the music of Russia over the Germanic compositions that had previously been the fashion, following in the footsteps of musical nationalist Mikhail Glinka.
		Dubbed by Russian critic Vladimir Stasov "the mighty handful" (moguchaya kuchka), the group included Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev, their self-appointed leader.
		With a mighty crash, the music segues into a sweeping recapitulation of the Sultan's theme from the first movement, which then subsides as if the Sultan has been mollified.
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	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balakirev encouraged him to compose and taught him when he was not at sea.
		He also met the other composers of the group that were to become known as "The Five", or "The Mighty Handful", through Mily Balakirev.
		While in the Navy, Rimsky-Korsakov completed his first symphony (1861-1865), which some have deemed the first such piece to be composed by a Russian, but this is not the case (the Russian Anton Rubinstein composed his own first symphony in 1850).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rimsky-Korsakov (820 words)

	The Mighty Five = Moguchaya Kuchka
		It was delight, awe, it was an almost prayerful bowing before a mighty creative force, which had transformed that weak bilious, sometimes petty and envious man into a powerful giant of will, energy, and inspiration.
		The Mighty Handful also changed the style of music outside of Russia, which was mostly accomplished by Mussorgsky's music.
		The Mighty Five were brought together by a mutual interest in the music of Russia, and music that would differ from the music of the West that was so prevalent in this time.
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	Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1861 he joined the group of amateur composers taught by Balakirev, whom the critic Stasov, their intellectual mentor, would dub "the mighty handful"--Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky.
		The FIVE (or "mighty five") vaunted their amateurism and aggressively launched their nationalist music against the professional establishment (primarily Anton Rubinstein).
		Rimsky's general strategy appeared in his symphonic sketch Sadko (1867), in which folkloric elements are couched in coloristic harmony and orchestration.
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	The Mighty Handful -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The other members of The Five were (Click link for more info and facts about César Cui) César Cui, (Click link for more info and facts about Alexander Borodin) Alexander Borodin, (Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881)) Modest Mussorgsky and (Click link for more info and facts about Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
		Before them, (Russian composer (1804-1857)) Mikhail Glinka had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music.
		The name of (Click link for more info and facts about Les Six) Les Six, an even looser collection of French-speaking composers, is derived from 'The Five'.
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	Face of Russia: Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		And of course, close also to the melodious Tchaikovsky, not a member of the group, but surely the most gloriously sad and yet melodically soaring of all the composers of this great Russian national school of music.
		He was the most orchestrally gifted among the Mighty Handful.
		The music of the Mighty Handful soon so dominated Russian taste that Rimsky-Korsakov was invited back to teach at the Conservatory where his portrait still evokes his presence.
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	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Liapunov had Tchaikovsky among his teachers at the Moscow Conservatory, later moving to St. Petersburg, where he came under the direct influence of Balakirev, the dictatorial leader of the Russian nationalist Mighty Handful.
		He taught later at the Conservatory, but left Russia after the Revolution, teaching in Paris until his death in 1924.
		He wrote extensively for the piano, with an impressive set of Twelve Studies completed in 1905 and a number of character pieces, in which his interest in Russian folksong is often apparent.
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	The Mighty Handful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Before them Mikhail Glinka had gone some way towards producing distinctly Russian kind of music writing operas Russian subjects but The Mighty Handful represented first concentrated attempt to develop such a
		They influenced and taught many of the Russian composers who were to follow including Sergei Prokofiev Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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	How to Extend Your Classical CD Collection
		Russian nationalism in the 19th century found a place also in music, there notably with the group of five composers dominated by Balakirev.
		The Mighty Handful, as their mentor Stasov called them, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Mussorgsky and Borodin, for the most part lacked professional training and held such systematic teaching, newly propagated in Russia through the conservatories established by the Rubinstein brothers, in some contempt, as foreign.
		It was the naval officer Rimsky-Korsakov who most satisfactorily surmounted his lack of early training to become a teacher at the St Petersburg Conservatory.
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	Decca Music Group - Composers
		Nevertheless, he continued to study music, and an encounter, at the age of 17, with the composer Mily Balakirev - the central figure in a movement to follow the example of Mikhail Glinka, Rimsky's childhood idol, in giving Russia a distinct and distinguished musical voice - determined his future as a musician.
		The composers of this new, nationalist school (in addition to Rimsky and Balakirev, it included Cesar Cui, Modest Moussorgsky, and Alexander Borodin) became known as "The Mighty Handful" or "The Mighty Little Bunch".
		If Moussorgsky was the most brilliant and original composer in the group, Rimsky-Korsakov, its youngest member, went on to become its most technically accomplished and the one most willing to absorb Western European musical tendencies, like his contemporary, Tchaikovsky; he was to exercise a powerful influence on two generations of Russian composers.
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