Mussorgsky

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• Early this season, as I listened to the Symphony play the Mussorgsky-Ravel.

  Blog text (2)

• "They loved my Mussorgsky!" he boomed as he swung me around.

  Fiction book (1999)

• 4 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

  Pink Narcissus (1971)

• Mussorgsky was his favorite composer.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The first is "A Night on Bald Mountain," by one of Russia's greatest composers, Modest Mussorgsky.

  Fantasia (1940)

• My love for music started when I was eight or nine, when my school music teacher played Ravel's arrangement of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" in class.

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• Our Pictures at an Exhibition was, of course, the Stokowski orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece for piano.

  Academic text (2007)

• A New York Times critic, reviewing his Met debut in 1954, said Anthony even made bit parts, like the Simpleton in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," unforgettable.

  Blog text (8)

• Modest Mussorgsky is best known for his opera "Boris Godunov," which reflects Russian history and culture.

• The composer Mussorgsky created the orchestral suite "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by an art exhibition.

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Modest Mussorgsky

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A Russian composer of the 19th century who wrote works such as Pictures at an Exhibition and Boris Godunov

is neutral about innovation, focusing on well known works and dates

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Moussorgsky

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A Russian composer in the 1800s famous for operas and orchestral works

uses the more common modern spelling of the composer's name

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