Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Born: 21st March 1839, Karevo, Russia
Died: 28th March 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Interview,
Brindley Sherratt on Fear No More
Ahead of the release of his debut solo recording (due out on Delphian tomorrow), the veteran British bass discusses his 'upside-down' singing career, overcoming his anxieties about song-recitals, and being told to give up the trumpet by Janet Baker...
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Claire Booth on Mussorgsky
The British soprano talks to Katherine about her new album with pianist Christopher Glynn, which intersperses some of the composer's lesser-known songs with a selection of his piano pieces.
Popular Genres: Mussorgsky
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Opera
Vocal
Popular Works: Mussorgsky
- A Night on the Bare Mountain (260)
- A Night on the Bare Mountain (piano version) (13)
- Boris Godunov (28)
- Boris Godunov (highlights) (8)
- Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene (13)
- Dance of the Persian Slaves (from Khovanshchina) (29)
- Darling Savishna (9)
- Dawn on the Moscow River (from Khovanshchina) (25)
- Dostig Ya Vyshey Vlasti (from Boris Godunov) (12)
- Duma - Rêverie (on a theme of V. A. Loginov) (10)
- Ein Kinderscherz (13)
- Gopak (from Sorochintsy Fair) (79)
- Impromptu passionné (16)
- In the Village (17)
- Intermezzo in modo classico (18)
- Khovanshchina (15)
- Khovanshchina: Act Four Intermezzo (11)
- Khovanshchina: Prelude (21)
- La Caprisieuse on a theme of Count L Heyden (11)
- Meditation (Album Leaf) (18)
- Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea (33)
- Near the southern shore of the Crimea (Capriccio) (13)
- Noch' (11)
- On the southern shore of the Crimea (Gurzuf) (10)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (524)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version) (162)
- Pictures at an Exhibition: Great Gate of Kiev (16)
- Pictures at an Exhibition: The Gnome (9)
- Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle (22)
- Rêverie (10)
- Scherzo (10)
- Scherzo in B flat major (10)
- Scherzo in C Sharp minor (13)
- Songs and Dances of Death (60)
- Sunless (12)
- The Nursery (30)
- The Seamstress (11)
- The Seminarist (8)
- Une Larme (A Tear) (37)
- Where are you, little star? (11)
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