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

She figured she could handle the low-lying role of Marfa in Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina,” which she was to rehearse in Paris just a month later — months sooner than many singers return after giving birth.

From New York Times

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

With tolling bells, grim chords and an uneasy melody, the opening immediately brings to mind Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” another tale of a king gone mad.

From New York Times

Does the cycle have a narrative to it, or is it more a series of tableaux along the lines of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”?

From New York Times