Moussorgsky
Americannoun
noun
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Ever since titanic, rum-nosed Russian Composer Moussorgsky wrote an innocent little set of piano pieces called Pictures at an Exhibition, other musicians have been busy dressing it up in fancy and irrelevant orchestrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
So goes the Boris of Composer Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky, the Boris of Basso Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, given last week for the first time this year at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are composers comfortable now on any U. S. concert program.
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It passes October Station, from which Bolsheviks used to leave for Siberia, and ends near the cemetery where lie the bones of Moussorgsky, Dostoevsky, Tschaikowsky and many another famed Russian artist.
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These men, Balakireff, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Moussorgsky, have done for the free expression of the Russian temperament in music what Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoyevsky represent in literature.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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