Definitions

1. Mussorgsky was one of the group of five Russian nationalist composers that formed the so-called Mighty Handful in the second half of the 19th century. (Web site)
2. Modest Mussorgsky was a great composer despite his best efforts. (Web site)
3. Musically, Mussorgsky was self-taught, except for some study with Mily Balakirev and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov.
4. Yet Modest Mussorgsky was a towering figure in nineteenth century Russian music.

Khovanshchina

1. Mussorgsky, Modest: (1835-1881); Russian nationalist composer; one of the Mighty Five; composed two historical operas Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina.

Works

1. Titles of individual movements allude to works by Hartmann; Mussorgsky used Hartmann as a working title during the work's composition.

Modest Mussorgsky

1. Khovanshchina (, Hovánščina, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky.

Modest

1. Modest Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition is best known through its orchestration by Ravel. (Web site)
2. Modest Mussorgsky, who composed this music, was born in Karevo, Russia, on March 21, 1839; he died in St. Petersburg on March 28, 1881.
3. Russian opera reached its apogee with the works by Modest Mussorgsky and his antipode Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Bach

1. His own arrangement of Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Bach have been varied and surprising.

Verdi

1. Guillaume Tell, his swan-song, has a vast sweep[ 21] only equalled in the nineteenth century by the later works of Verdi, Mussorgsky and Wagner. (Web site)

Boris Godunov

1. More Boris Godunov is a tragic opera in a prologue and four acts by the Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (see Mussorgsky, Modest).
2. Pushkin's Shakespearean drama ' Boris Godunov ' (1825) was set to music by Modest Mussorgsky.

Legacy Lives

1. This legacy lives on in his hugely popular recordings for Chandos with the BBC Philharmonic of Stokowski's arrangements of Bach, Wagner and Mussorgsky.

Composers

1. In the mid-1920s she turned from the opera stage to concert recitals in which she sang songs by Monteverdi, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Gluck, among other composers.
2. This may account for the success of his orchestral transcriptions, both of his own piano works and those of other composers, such as Modest Mussorgsky. (Web site)

Grieg

1. From Grieg to Gershwin, Bach to Beethoven or Mozart to Mussorgsky, there’s something for all to enjoy here. (Web site)

Tchaikovsky

1. Whilst Grieg and Tchaikovsky were friends and admired each other's music, the link between Debussy and Mussorgsky is less obvious.

Balakirev

1. Further inspiration included the music of Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Medtner (whom he considered the greatest contemporary composer) and Henselt.

Borodin

1. In Russia, Glinka's Kamarinskaya (1848) was a prototype for the symphonic poems of Balakirev, Mussorgsky and Borodin on national subjects.
2. In his later years, Liszt did his best to promote the works of the newer Russian school of composers, including Borodin and Mussorgsky. (Web site)

Rimsky-Korsakov

1. The lesser known operas of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, and Mussorgsky are Wagnerian in length and at a much higher cost. (Web site)
2. The working arrangement they agreed upon was that Mussorgsky used the piano in the mornings while Rimsky-Korsakov worked on copying or orchestration.

Mussorgsky

1. Among the Russian composers of his time, the most prominent influences on Debussy were Tchaikovsky, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky. (Web site)
2. And one idea, popular in different ways with Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov, was to make their music tell a story.
3. He has made more than fifteen recordings of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Scarlatti, Tchaikovsky and others. (Web site)

Categories

1. Rimsky-Korsakov
2. Borodin
3. Balakirev
4. Glinka
5. Music > Composers > Russian Composers > Tchaikovsky
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