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Moussorgsky

American  
[moo-sawrg-skee, -zawrg-, moo-suhrk-skyee] / mʊˈsɔrg ski, -ˈzɔrg-, ˈmu sərk skji /
Also Moussorgski,

noun

  1. Modest Petrovich 1839–81, Russian composer.


Moussorgsky British  
/ mʊˈsɔːɡskɪ, ˈmusərkskij /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of (Modest Petrovich) Mussorgsky

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Like Clifford Odets, his opposite number in the theatre, Oboler cannot work without music, makes a point of listening to recordings of Beethoven, Moussorgsky, Sibelius and Debussy before settling into the creative groove.

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Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are composers comfortable now on any U. S. concert program.

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Under the able baton of Stanislaw Namyslowski, they began giving a series of concerts in the U. S., playing the works of such Polish masters as Moniuszko, Joteyko, Moszkowski, Moussorgsky, Rozycki, Nowowiejski and Powiadomski.

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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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No doubt the music of Moussorgsky is not entirely iron-gray.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

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