Mussorgsky

American  

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

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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Mussorgsky

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

The standard Rimsky-Korsakov arrangement that Dudamel used is more flowered than the messy Mussorgsky original, but it is also more nuanced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

‘Boris Godunov’ was composed by Modest Mussorgsky in the 19th century.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

His compatriot who signed himself ‘Sergei Rachmaninoff’ in the West is ‘corrected’ to ‘Syergyey Rachmaninof,’ and Mussorgsky becomes ‘Musorksky,’ for heaven’s sake.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 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