Mussorgsky

American  

[moo-sawrg-skee, -zawrg-, moo-suhrg-skyee] / mʊˈsɔrg ski, -ˈzɔrg-, ˈmu sərg skyi /

Or Mussorgski

noun

1. Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.

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Mussorgsky British  

/ mʊˈsɔːɡskɪ, ˈmusərkskij /

noun

1. Modest Petrovich (maˈdɛst pɪˈtrɔvitʃ). 1839–81, Russian composer. He translated inflections of speech into melody in such works as the song cycle Songs and Dances of Death (1875–77) and the opera Boris Godunov (1874). His other works include Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) for piano

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Example Sentences

Composed without arias or set pieces, Dargomyzhsky’s score illuminates Pushkin’s words and paves the way for the truly Russian opera, however grander, of Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

"Mussorgsky with this opera has challenged power - that's one reason why it is right to stage it", said director Kasper Holten depicting Boris Godunov as a story about power and cynicism.

From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2022

You could say that was also the problem with Mussorgsky, and over time we’ve come to prefer the original versions, their authenticity more meaningful than their faults.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Her concert repertory was extensive, including Catalan folk melodies as well as song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Mussorgsky and Mahler.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2022

The invigorating newness of Mussorgsky, whose art, thought Debussy, was 'free from artifice and arid formulae’, was but one of the extraordinarily fruitful imports to the Exposition Universelle.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall