Modest Mussorgsky
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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 and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical i
The aristocratic Mussorgsky brothers—Filaret (also known as "Yevgeniy", left), and Modest (right) in 1858
Monument on the site of the Mussorgsky family house in Karevo, Pskov Oblast
Mussorgsky in 1856 as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
The Five (composers)
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The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balak
Modest Mussorgsky
…Modest Petrovich Musorgsky; IPA: ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance…
Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906)
Mighty Handful